Tag: cultural anthropology

Some Thoughts on Culture, Communication, and Missions. Part 1

On By missionmusingsIn Contextualization, Mission Theology1 Comment

I have been dabbling with communication models (such as the 3-culture model). I thought the basic appearance could be applied to cultures and interaction of cultures. I am very open to thoughts on this. Figure 1 shows two people groups. P People Group N Natural World (objective reality) associated with the people group C Culture …

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Church Acculturation in Missions

On By missionmusingsIn Contextualization, Uncategorized4 Comments

J.W. Berry (1980) described 4 modes of acculturation. Assimilation.    One's cultural identity is lost in the dominant culture Integration.   One Seeks to integrate one's cultural identity with the dominant culture. Separation.    One maintains one's unique cultural identity, rejecting the dominant culture. Marginalization.    One loses important parts of own cultural identity, while having those parts …

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