Roots of Acceptance: The Unculturation Communication of Religious Meanings

The aim of this study is to help missionaries and other religious workers better understand the obstacles they encounter, as well as the opportunities they can exploit, in cultural settings to which the Church has recently been introduced. The missionary religions face the problem of communicating to people of other cultures the sets of meanings which define each institution's character and purpose. The author in this book applies some of the insights of social and cultural anthropology to assis…