Cultural Anthropology for Missions

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CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY FOR MISSIONS M.M.NINAN In the urban evangelization, individuals can take independent decisions, because each person is comparatively independent with the tribal hierarchical influence. In the modern Sudanese townships, the social structure is one which was left behind by the British which is highly individualistic. In group conversion in the rural areas, individuals who do not conform to the culture are not approached. Christianity does not produce an alien culture. It is taken into the culture The indigenous churches are those that grow within the society. Missionaries especially from those overdeveloped countries are not the means of these churches. They cannot be founded but they 71
CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY FOR MISSIONS M.M.NINAN simply grow. Usually a spirit filled person from within the culture or from a culture close to it will generate the force. The result will not be a copy of the churches in England or America. But then the role of the missionary is not to start a Pentecostal Church or an Egoist church or some other denominational church. They are simply the missionaries of Jesus. Actually denominationalism as we see today is nothing, hut the development of some indigenous church somewhere else in the world. The relevance of such denominational churches is simply that they are now found in the Sudan and has already started a subculture in the country. When Christians are the heroes and ideals and the norm of a culture Christianity is indigenous. He must he the best tribesman according to the best standards of the culture wherein he lives. This can arise only if missionaries stop sabotaging cultures and importing foreign norms. When a tribesman becomes a Christian he should be able to live the ideal tribal life and be a paragon of all virtues that the tribes look. forward to. Such an integrated life is possible only when Christian rites and living styles are expressed in the cultural context. What is the normal way of worship in the 72
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