Christianity in Asia explores the history, development, and current state of Christianity across the world’s largest and most populous continent. Offers detailed coverage of the growth of Christianity within South Asia; among the thousands of islands comprising Southeast Asia; and across countries whose Christian origins were historically linked, including Vietnam, Thailand, China, Hong Kong…
This collection of essays explores the problems, difficulties, and complexities of interculturality, as well as the significance, new orientations, innovative actions, and future visions of intercultural living. With essays by prominent missiologists, this is an important contribution to the fields of missiology, ecclesiology, and pastoral care.
Pentingnya demokratisasi dalam gereja adalah untuk meminimalkan penyalahgunaan wewenang para pejabat gereja. Adanya ruang demokratisasi bisa menjadi angin segar yang mungkin menumbuhkan rasa memiliki umat beriman terhadap gerejanya
Di dalam situasi zaman yang ditandai dengan kemajuan besar-besaran di bidang ilmu pengetahuan dan teknologi ini, ilmu pengetahuan cenderung memisahkan diri dari permasalahan etis praktis dan mengklaim dirinya bebas nilai. Tapi benarkah bahwa tidak ada pertautan antara teori dan praksis kehidupan sosio-politis manusia? Dengan memaparkan kembali secara sistematis pemikiran-pemikiran Habermas, pen…
Jika kita mendengar kata Lekra, maka yang langsung terpikirkan oleh kita adalah sebuah lembaga kebudayaan bentukan PKI yang pernah membikin ricuh panggung budaya Indonesia di era Demokrasi Terpimpin (1950-1965), tukang ganyang, pembuat onar, pemicu konflik tak berkesudahan dengan para sastrawan Manifes Kebudayaan (Manikebu), dan telibat pembakaran buku-buku di depan Kantor USIS (Pusat Informasi…
Ernest Gellner explores here the links between anthropology and politics, and shows just how central these are. The recent postmodernist turn in anthropology has been linked to the expiation of colonial guilt. Traditional, functionalist anthropology is characteristically regarded as an accessory to the crime, and anyone critical of the relativistic claims of interpretative anthropology (as Erne…
The second edition of this major book on the social analysis of religion incorporates a substantial new introduction by Bryan S Turner. Religion and Social Theory assesses the different theoretical approaches to the social function of religion. Turner discusses at length the ideas of key contributors to these approaches (including Engels, Durkheim, Weber, Nietzsche, Freud, Parsons, Marcuse, Hab…