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y the context, then moved by the Spirit; when tensioned by the context, then led
by the Spirit; when confronted by the context, then controlled by the Spirit; when
embattled by the context, then energized by the Spirit; when threatened by the
context, then strengthened by the Spirit.
6.3. Contextual Features
The current study of Pentecostalism in Rajasthan indicates that contextual
missiology of the Spirit has certain distinctive characteristics. In the light of the
study some significant contextual features will be discussed.
6.3.1. Glocal Missiology
Contextual missiology of the Spirit has the characteristic to be a glocal missiology
as it takes the local-global tension into account seriously. The sociologist Roland
Robertson coined the term glocalization to refer to the way in which the global
and the local intertwine. However, he acknowledges that glocalize is a term which
was developed in particular reference to marketing issues in Japan in the context
of the general problem of the relationship between the universal and the particular.
Glocalization best illustrates the ‘attempts to bring the global, the macroscopic
aspect of contemporary life, into conjunction with the local, the microscopic side
of life….’ According to Robertson, glocalization seriously downplays the
‘increasingly complex relationship between ‘the local’ and ‘the global.’ 150 Bruce
Mazlish observes that glocalization is a complicated process, as ‘the local affects
the global, and the global, the local, and back and forth in a constant
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Roland Robertson, Globalization: Social Theory and Global Culture (London: Sage
Publications, 1992), 174.
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