Missionary Women as Models in the Cross-Cultural Context

1982 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 455-460 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frances Hiebert
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Women Missionaries ◽  
Past Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
Success Stories ◽  
Mission Agencies ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Missionary Women ◽  
The Church

Long neglected in missionary histories, women missionaries are the unsung heroes of the past century, and well may be the source of much of this century's missionary success stories, says Fran Hiebert in this provocative article. Instead of claiming to be the champions of women, Western mission agencies may need to repent and look for some ashcloth if they are not going to lose their credibility vis-à-vis the church in the Two-Thirds World.

Promoting the Constants of the Mission with Muslims in Today’s Middle East

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-151
Author(s):  
Jules Boutros ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Islamic Fundamentalism ◽  
The Past ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
Reign Of God ◽  
The Church

One of the most important facts that the Second Vatican Council has revealed is that the point of the Church is not itself, but to go beyond itself, to be a community that preaches, serves, celebrates, and witnesses to the reign of God with due respect to the text and context. During the past century, the Church of the Middle East experienced the absence of an authentic missionary enthusiasm and the lack of a clear and pertinent theology with which it could face the challenge presented to Christianity by Islam. This challenge resides in its special role and mission before the Muslims, which this paper will further discuss and, in doing so, answer the question, How can the Church of the Middle East try to approach the Muslims in a time of violent Islamic fundamentalism and persecutions, in a region where most of the Christians are opting to remain distant or to emigrate?

scholarly journals Cross-cultural adaptation and content validation into Portuguese of the Subjective Global Nutritional Assessment for pediatric patients hospitalized with cancer

2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 307-320
Author(s):  
Danúbia da Cunha Antunes SARAIVA ◽  
Wanélia Vieira AFONSO ◽  
Nivaldo Barroso de PINHO ◽  
Wilza Arantes Ferreira PERES ◽  
Patricia de Carvalho PADILHA
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Adaptation ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Pediatric Patients ◽  
Nutritional Assessment ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Expert Committee ◽  
Content Validation ◽  
Cross Cultural Adaptation ◽  
The Cross

ABSTRACT Objective Cross-cultural adaptation and content validation of the Brazilian Portuguese version of the Subjective Global Nutritional Assessment questionnaire (originally in English) for use in hospitalized children and adolescents being treated in a reference institute of oncology. Methods The cross-cultural adaptation process consisted of the following stages: conceptual, item, semantic, and operational equivalence. The conceptual equivalence and item was carried out through discussion with members of an expert committee. Semantic equivalence was evaluated through initial translation, synthesis of translations, back translation, discussions with experts, and pretest with 32 patients. During operational equivalence, the experts discussed about the format of questions and instructions, setting, target populations, and mode of administration to later propose a final version. Content validation was performed by the expert committee. Results Minor modifications were made in the instrument to facilitate its use in the Brazilian socio-cultural context. Pretest results showed that the instrument is easily understood by health care professionals and the target population. Conclusion The cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the Subjective Global Nutritional Assessment allowed obtaining a Brazilian version equivalent to the original. The adapted instrument will be an important tool for the subjective assessment of the nutritional status of pediatric patients hospitalized with cancer.

The Mnemonic Imagination and Second-Generation Migrant Experience

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Keightley ◽  
Michael Pickering
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Effective Management ◽  
Ethnographic Case Study ◽  
The Past ◽  
Considerable Resistance ◽  
Professional Photographer ◽  
Generation Migrant

Drawing on our concept of the mnemonic imagination, this chapter shows how the past is reactivated and pieced together into a relatively coherent narrative in the interests of identity and the effective management of change. In forming the synthetic hub of remembering and imagining, the mnemonic imagination is mobilized in bringing past, present, and future into meaningful correspondence. This chapter illustrates how this happens via an ethnographic case study involving Kia Kapoor, a second-generation Indian woman in her early 30s living in England, who uses her work as a professional photographer to help her negotiate her own difficult past as someone caught between two cultures. The case demonstrates mnemonic imagining at work in a particular cross-generational and cross-cultural context, taking into account how it can be thwarted by various obstacles and how, through considerable resistance and struggle, it can help overcome the consequences of radical sociocultural disruption.

The Goddess Kāmākhyā: Religio-political Implications in the Tribalisation Process

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo Eugenio Rosati
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Eleventh Century ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Oriental Studies ◽  
University Of Rome ◽  
Sexual Symbolism

This article examines the cross-cultural influence that worked on the absorption process of the goddess Kāmākhyā (Assam) within the Brahmanic pantheon, through a correlation of textual and historical-religious pieces of evidence. 2 2  This article is an enlarged and revised version of a paper that I presented on 18 September 2015 during the sixth Coffee Break Conference (17–19 September) held at the Italian Institute of Oriental Studies of ‘Sapienza’ University of Rome. In Assam, the cross-cultural interaction, between local tribes and Indo-Aryan speakers, began around 200 BCE–100 CE—when the Vedic culture had already changed from its earlier theological pattern. Therefore, after had been influenced by a long cross-cultural negotiation, the early medieval north-eastern purāṇas transformed the dakṣayajña myth, legitimising the temple of Kāmākhyā on Nīlācala as the greatest śākta pīṭha (seat of power), where the yoni (vulva) of Sat ī was preserved. In this way, the Purāṇas reconnected Nīlācala–Kāmākhyā not only to the sexual symbolism, but also to an ancient cremation ground and its death imaginary–a fact that the systematisation of the yoginī cult (ninth–eleventh century) into the Yoginī Kaula school corroborated. In this cross-cultural context, the early medieval Assamese dynasties emerged tied to the danger of liminal powers—linked to both the heterodox śākta-tantra sects and tribal traditions that were harnessed by the kings through the exoteric and esoteric rituals practised at Kāmākhyā.

The Oxford Handbook of Ecclesiology

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Church History ◽  
The Self ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Past Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Research Fields ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
The Church ◽  
Historical Origins

This Handbook is a comprehensive resource for the scholarly study of the self-understanding of the church through the centuries—its theological identity. Nearly thirty expert contributions describe the continuities and discontinuities in the changing understanding of the church. The scope of ecclesiology is defined by the manifold self-understanding and action of the church in relation to a number of research fields, including its historical origins, structures of authority, doctrine, ministry and sacraments, unity and diversity, and mission, as well as its relation to the state, to civil society, and to culture. The book covers the main sources of such ecclesiological research and reflection, namely the Bible, church history from the apostolic age to the present, the wealth of the Christian theological traditions, the experience and practice of the churches today, together with the information and insights that emerge from other relevant academic disciplines. Ecclesiology has also been the main focus of the intense ecumenical engagement, study, and dialogue of the past century and is the area where the most intractable differences remain to be resolved. In particular, generous space is allocated to the New Testament sources of ecclesiology and to some of the most influential shapers of modern ecclesiology.

scholarly journals Africanising the Catholic Mass Celebration in Ghana: Recognising Cultural Identity or Agenda to Retain the Faithful?

2018 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kofi Poku Quan-Baffour
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
African Culture ◽  
Turn On ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Cross ◽  
The Church ◽  
Full Conversion ◽  
The Catholic Church

The Catholic Church started in Ghana in the 1500s. The missionaries of this Eurocentric Church prohibited its converts from practising their culture, for example the singing of folksongs, drumming, dancing and wearing of talismans in and outside the church, because they were deemed satanic, savage, fetish, heathen and ungodly. The missionaries’ perception was that Ghanaians did not know God and they—the missionaries—had come to Africa to “teach the Ghanaians” about God. Church premises were decorated with the cross and Christ images to facilitate full conversion of converts; whereas Ghanaian traditional, cultural and religious shrines for the veneration of “their” gods were destroyed. Church hymns were in Latin and English with few translations. However, in a noteworthy change of heart, over the past two decades Ghanaian drums, songs and dance were once again accepted into the Mass. This ethnographic study, which was undertaken to understand the sudden “U-turn” on Ghanaian culture, found that the change of attitude was to recognise African culture with the agenda of retaining the faithful in the wake of competition from emerging charismatic churches.

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