Voices from the Margins
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
The wisdom of tribal peoples has often been overlooked, both within the church and outside of it. However as the ideologies of consumerism, free market individualism, and nationalism grow more and more dominant across the globe, with devastating implications for our planet’s shared future, it has become ever more urgent to make space for voices from the margins – voices offering alternative frameworks for understanding the nature of existence, spirituality, and what it means to be human.
This book draws together contributors from diverse tribal and denominational backgrounds to reflect on the future of Christianity in Northeast India, a region rich in ancient myths, oral traditions, and a vibrant awareness of both the spiritual realm and the embeddedness of humans within creation. Joining a wider conversation regarding the integration of Christianity and primal traditions, the authors wrestle with crucial questions surrounding identity and the challenges of contextualizing the gospel in relation to their own languages, cultures, and traditions. Looking both backwards and forwards, they provide insight into the history of Christianity in tribal contexts, while exploring the vital significance of recovering and transmitting indigenous knowledge and the profound perspective it offers the church into the significance of Christ and his gospel.
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- Draws together contributors to reflect on the future of Christianity.
- Provides insight into the history of Christianity in tribal contexts.
- Explores indigenous knowledge and the profound perspective it offers the church.
This collection of essays helps to rescue the Christian traditions of Northeast India from their supposed marginality. It also brings to light rich resources of oral wisdom from a variety of indigenous peoples which deserve the attention of all Christians, and indeed of the whole human family.
--Brian Stanley, PhD. University of Edinburgh, UK
- Title: Voices from the Margins: Wisdom of Primal Peoples in the Era of World Christianity
- Authors: Jangkholam Haokip, David W. Smith
- Series: Global Perspectives Series
- Publisher: Langham
- Print Publication Date: 2022
- Logos Release Date: 2023
- Pages: 157
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subjects: Christianity and culture India, Northeastern; India, Northeastern Religion; Indigenous peoples India, Northeastern Religion; Indigenous peoples Religion; Meaning (Philosophy) Religious aspects Christianity; Northeastern India; Religion; Spiritual life Christianity; Spirituality; Spirituality India, Northeastern
- ISBNs: 9781839736957, 9781839736964, 9781839736971, 183973695X, 1839736968, 1839736976
- Resource ID: LLS:VOICESMARGINS
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2023-10-13T15:41:58Z