Indian Work and Church-Mission Integration
The current trend toward “indigenization,” or transferral of responsibility from the missions to the national churches and from missionaries to nationals, is represented in a number of areas today by the plan for “integration” of the mission with the national church. In this plan the mission as such...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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1961
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| In: |
Practical anthropology
Year: 1961, Volume: 8, Issue: 5, Pages: 193-199 |
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| Summary: | The current trend toward “indigenization,” or transferral of responsibility from the missions to the national churches and from missionaries to nationals, is represented in a number of areas today by the plan for “integration” of the mission with the national church. In this plan the mission as such is dissolved and the missionaries become “fraternal workers” under the administrative responsibility of the church in the country where they are serving. The writer of the present article discusses the danger that, for Indian work in Latin America, this integration may lead to a greater degree of paternalism toward the Indian churches, or even in some cases to curtailment of the Indian work; and suggests certain measures for the missions of the sending churches to consider as a means to offset this danger and to help the national churches develop the full potential which their Indian constituency represents. The implications of this article apply just as well to other areas where there are minority populations with different languages and cultures from the national group. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Practical anthropology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/009182966100800501 |