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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Indigenous Christianity"”.
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Rethinking Indigenous Christianity in Northwest Canada: perspectives from the Nuu-chah-nulth
… structure. This research focusses on the form of Indigenous Christianity from Northwest Canada and attempts to represent the perspective of Nuu-chah-nulth people. The study shows that the Nuu-chah-nulth culture and religious traditions are in many ways synonymous, and this makes it possible to see …
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INDIGENOUS CHRISTIANITY: EARLY MISSIONARY ENCOUNTERS AND RELIGIOUS CHANGE IN NIAS, INDONESIA (1865-1908)
… Nias culture and ‘transcendentalist’ Christianity brought by German missionaries during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The early encounter between Nias culture and Christianity offers an example of a process through which syncretism arises. The thesis engages with recent …
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Muslim Messiah: Evangelical Missionaries and the Controversies of Islamic Contextualization
… of God" literally. The question of whether an indigenous Christianity might be possible within Islam led to a discussion that persisted from the early 1970s to the early 2010s, exposing fault lines within American evangelicalism over the nature of Islam, the role of Bible translation, and the …
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Kiai Sadrach Suropranoto (1835-1924) and the Javanese mystical Christian movement.
… as a central figure in the development of indigenous Christianity in colonial Java. Born into a poor farming family and orphaned as a child, Sadrach’s spiritual journey began within the Javanese mystical tradition and later traversed Islamic Sufism before culminating in his conversion to …
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After conversion: gender, modernity, and the regeneration of Christianity across three generations of indigenous evangelicals in highland Ecuador
… of religious change across three generations of indigenous evangelicals in the Ecuadorian Andes. This process, which I term re-generating Christianity, involves negotiating the legacies of mass conversion in shifting sociocultural contexts in and through generational and gender relations. Based …