Communication in Mission and Development: Relating to the Church in Africa - Softcover

Harries, Jim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 162032878X ISBN 13: 9781620328781

Verlag: Wipf and Stock, 2013

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Communication in Mission and Development identifies, unpacks, and articulates fundamental problems in communication in mission and development as it is being carried out in Africa and the majority world today. New technology, unique in the history of mankind, is throwing up vexing issues, to date barely recognized, in communication practice. This book reconsiders: Previous work by mission scholars on communication. Questions regarding materialism in Africa. Widespread understandings on the nature of human equality. The impact on communication of the holding of monistic vs. dualistic worldviews. African and Western approaches to hermeneutics. The use of European languages for communication in Africa. Issues related to globalization and development. And more . . . Underlying differences in philosophical foundations amongst Western as against majority world people influences their respective communication to such an extent that the expectation that both sides simply understand one another because they happen to use the same international language is found to be unrealistic. Communication in Mission and Development concludes that the practice of mission and development will better cope with current realities when the use of local languages is once again given its proper decisive place.

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From 1988 to date, missionary Jim Harries has perceived a gap between what outsiders suppose and the reality he observes in sub-Saharan Africa. He has moved from agricultural teaching, to development, to Bible teaching--often using African languages. Jim has forged deep relationships with indigenous African churches. He lives in an African village using his own stipend to rear local orphan children using their mother tongue. Jim has a PhD in theology from the University of Birmingham (UK) and has published widely.

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• Verlag: Wipf and Stock
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 162032878X
• ISBN 13: 9781620328781
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 162
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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