Course information | 603 Cultural Anthropology (HNS CHC DL) S1 2025

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Welcome

Week 1: 17 - 23 February 2025

Laidlaw Orientation at all Campuses

Timetables and Textbooks

Introductions - Please start here

Introduction to Lecturer - Rebecca de Jong

603 Orientation Check List

Week 2: 24 February - 02 March 2025

Lesson 1: Introducing Cultural Anthropology

Yang Liu East meets West

Acts 15:1-35

Trobisch - Omodo (Case study)

Titus 1:5 and 1 Tim 3:2, 12

Model of Basic Values Questionaire

Hiebert - A case of polygamy

Polygamy - how many wives (Adeney)

603 L1 PP 2025

Week 3: 3 - 9 March 2025

Lesson 2: The Concepts of Culture and Worldview; God and Culture

Walls - Gospel as Prisoner Liberator

Griffiths - God and culture

Hiebert - Introduction in Transforming Worldviews

Kraft - Gods Attitude to Culture

Theology of Cultural Anthropology by Myk Habets

603 L2 PP 2024

Week 4: 10 - 16 March 2025

Lesson 3: Language; Dimensions of Worldview

Characteristics of Language

Ted Talk: How Language Shapes the way we think

Week 6: 24 - 30 March 2025

Lesson 4: Reality and Religion

Turner - Overview Matrix

Luke 7:18-23

Hiebert - Flaw of the excluded middle

Hiebert -A sacrifice to the goddess of smallpox

Week 7: 31 March - 6 April 2025

Lesson 5: A Closer Look at Worldview Universals (A)

Hiebert - A Group Conversion

5.2 Reflection Scriptures

Galatians 3:26-29

Aghamkar - Family Coherence and Evangelization in Urban India

Sexuality and the Covenant

Week 8: 7 - 13 April 2025

Lesson 6: A Closer Look at Worldview Universals (B)

Luke 2:41-52

Kraft - Integrational Thought

Kraft - on Shame and Guilt

Thomas - The Gospel for Shame Cultures

Week 11: 28 - April - 2 May 2025

Lesson 7: The Gospel Engaging Cultures

Davis - Introduction to Poles Apart

Hitchen - from The Gospel for Todays NZers

EMS Journal p35-50

Burnett World Of The Spirits pp209-225

Gordon Stewart, "Bounded and Centred Sets"

Hiebert - The Category Christian in the Mission Task

Frost Hirsch - Wells and Fences

Gospel and Culture

Week 12: 5 - 11 May 2025

Lesson 8: Contextualization (A)

Gestures, Meaning, and Cultures

Cultural Gaffes Beyond Your Boarders

Hiebert - Symbols, Form and meaning

Teague - To Drink or Not to Drink

Flemming - Contexualization in Acts (43-53)

Flemming - Case Studies from Corinth

Thielicke - Extracts, How Modern Should Theology Be

Flemming - Contexualization in Acts

Kraft -Syncretism and Contextualization

Week 13: 12 - 18 May 2025

Lesson 9: Contextualization (B)

Whiteman - Function of Appropriate Contextualization

Hirsch - "The Forgotten Ways"

The Kingdom Tree

Hiebert - Critical Contextualization

David - Case study Can a Christian celebrate Diwali

Travis Travis - Appropriate Approaches in Muslim Contexts

Week 15: 26 May - 1 June 2025

Lesson 10: Communicating and Education Cross-Culturally

Daniels - Event-speech as a form of missionary education

Education & Communication Across Culture PowerPoint