Misunderstanding Equality, Power, and Vulnerability: Elevating the Individual over Cohesion in Hierarchy as a Value
This article explores dominant ideas of value at play in a critical incident experienced by international mission candidates on a team placement, in an Anglican community of the United Kingdom. The ethnographic analysis will compare different perspectives on how misunderstanding cultural values and...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2024
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Mission studies
Year: 2024, Volume: 41, Issue: 2, Pages: 211-232 |
| Further subjects: | B
cohesion in Korean hierarchy
B Team work B value conflicts B Individualism B Suffering B Equality |
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| Summary: | This article explores dominant ideas of value at play in a critical incident experienced by international mission candidates on a team placement, in an Anglican community of the United Kingdom. The ethnographic analysis will compare different perspectives on how misunderstanding cultural values and social relations as theological obligations can lead to suffering. Thus, the study shows how qualitative differences in cultural values and social relations determine contrary ways of understanding theological conceptualizations of equality as a Christian idea in contact zones of international mission communities. The analysis challenges two Christian assumptions: firstly, that extending equal value to people before God is universally understood in the same way, and secondly, that individual well-being is inherently superior to ensuring social cohesion, exemplified by Korean hierarchy. Although people realize hierarchy and individualism the world over, the nuances of meaning dominating their relations to other values determine why and how people experience suffering. 本文探讨了一个关键事件中所涉及的价值主导观念，该事件发生在英国圣公会社区安排的一支国际宣教候选人团队中。因此，此分析将以民族志学的视角，探讨关于在理解平等观念与主导文化价值观和社会关系的关系上，如何因对质性方面的误解而导致苦难的产生。因此，该研究旨在展示主导文化价值观和社会关系如何决定国际宣教社区接触区域中对平等概念的构想。 此分析挑战了两个基督教的假设：首先，人们在上帝面前赋予平等的价值普遍被认为是以相同方式理解的，其次，个人福祉固有地优于确保社会凝聚力，韩国的等级制度是一个例证。尽管世界各地的人们都意识到等级制度和个人主义的概念，但这两种构想有着值得探索的微妙差异。 |
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| ISSN: | 1573-3831 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Mission studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15733831-12341964 |