Cultural Anthropology for Missions
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CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY FOR MISSIONS<br />
M.M.NINAN<br />
Marxism emanates from a passionate and restrained commitment<br />
to the idea of human emancipation – a desire to bring millennium<br />
into history. It is history’s repeated lesion that excess of moral fever<br />
can lead to evil. An intense desire makes man impatient, intolerant<br />
and arrogant and makes his ideals into a religion and them must be<br />
treated as such.<br />
Since Marxism is the main revolutionary <strong>for</strong>ce in the world today<br />
and has developed a vocabulary of revolution, most movements<br />
that fight against poverty, oppression, exploitation, racism and all<br />
<strong>for</strong>ms of human degradation find their expression in the Marxist<br />
vocabulary. The rebels express their indignation, demands and<br />
aspirations in terms of Marxism. The so was Christianity in its early<br />
days. It is so here in Southern Sudan today. Southerners find their<br />
national identity in Christianity even if the don’t contribute to it.<br />
As in any religion, you can find the extreme fanatical, atheistic<br />
national rationalists, fervent lovers of man who are <strong>for</strong>ced to defend<br />
the poor and the downtrodden, to the man filled with hatred and<br />
murder. I have met them all. I have met the most saintly ones and<br />
also the very devil incarnate among the Marxists. So again our<br />
response had to be individualistic.<br />
God deals with people as individuals and not as groups. Religions ,<br />
ideologies and aberrations are an expression of man’s desire to<br />
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