Loading...
Hermeneutics postcolonial and posmisional
Fung sj, Jojo M.
Fung sj, Jojo M.
Author(s)
Author(s) (Additional)
Illustrator(s)
Producer(s)
Contributor(s)
Contributor(s) (Other)
Editor(s)
Advisor(s)
Contact(s)
Data Collector(s)
Collections
Files
Research Projects
Organizational Units
Journal Issue
Online Access
Abstract
"With the UN drawing attention to the plight of indigenous peoples throughout the world through its declaration of the two decades of Indigenous Peoples (1990-2014), the church local, regional and universal has to generate a hermeneutics that is post-colonial and post missionterritorial. This hermeneutics enable the local churches to make sense of spirit-world that includes the Creator-Spirit, the ancestral spirits and shamanic spirits of nature, including the intermediary role of the shamans and healers. The first section will explain an emergent hermeneutics is post-colonial for reasons that the indigenous peoples around the world are living in nation-states that have gained independence from the North Atlantic colonial powers. At the same time, this hermeneutics is post-mission- territorial as the indigenous peoples who have embraced Christianity have become the members of the local churches. The second section deals with an understanding of the Creative Spirit (ruah elohim) through a critical correlational dialogue with indigenous religiosity, Chinese Cosmology, modern science, eastern and western cosmology. This conversation hopes to establish the rightful place of shamanic pneumatology amidst the multivocal discourses. The articulation of an emergent shamanic pneumatology of sacred sustainability will be offered in the final section."
Note(s)
Topic
Type
Article
Date
2013
Identifier
ISBN
DOI
Copyright/License
With permission of the license/copyright holder