Michael A Rynkiewich
Biographic Data
| ID | 146547 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael A Rynkiewich |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael A |
| FAMILY NAME | Rynkiewich |
| SIGNATURE | RYNKIEWICH M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Asbury Theological Seminary |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Research in Progress
Homosexuality in Cross-Cultural Perspective
In the American debate about sexuality, homosexuality is portrayed as an aberrance of choice by one side and as a natural outcome of biology by the other, sometimes with nuanced stances in between. Both sides tend to take for granted that the thing that they are talking about exists, and some argue that it is a unitary phenomenon found across cultures and through time. I question whether or not the English concept of homosexuality can serve as a …
Christopher Flanders and Werner Mischke, Honor, Shame, and the Gospel
The Challenge of Teaching Mission in an Increasingly Mobile and Complex World
In a time when old groupings are breaking up, when people are on the move or fleeing conflict and settling elsewhere, when many people are multilingual and are competent in several cultural settings, doing mission has become an ever greater challenge than simple cross-cultural communication. How does one engage in mission on the run? How does one conduct missiological research in ephemeral community that is here today and gone tomorrow? How does …
Response to Priest, Ngolo and Stabell
Do We Need a Postmodern Anthropology for Mission in a Postcolonial World
There was a time when mission studies benefitted from a symbiotic relationship with the social sciences. However, it appears that relationship has stagnated and now is waning. The argument is made here, in the case of cultural anthropology both in Europe and the United States, that a once mutually beneficial though sometimes strained relationship has suffered a parting of the ways in recent decades. First, the article reviews the relationships be…
Conclusion
This concluding article examines Oceanic cultural premises that define the relationships between people and the places they inhabit, taking local concepts of property as manifestations of these premises. Oceanic people share a common conception of the person as a relatum, one end of a relationship, because they share common ideas about how one becomes a person. Central to these conceptions is the common understanding of fetal inheritance: the ide…
Ethics and anthropology
Anthropologists Versus Missionaries
Although a missionary once served as president of the Royal Anthropological Institute, anthropological enculturation commonly includes categorizing missionaries as enemies. The conditioning seems to be more covert than overt, since anthropology texbooks seldom deal specifically with missionary activity and few ethnographies contain condemnations of missionaries. Two presuppositions which may influence the antimissionary attitude are (1) that the …
General and Theoretical
Ethics and anthropology
Anthropologists Versus Missionaries
Although a missionary once served as president of the Royal Anthropological Institute, anthropological enculturation commonly includes categorizing missionaries as enemies. The conditioning seems to be more covert than overt, since anthropology texbooks seldom deal specifically with missionary activity and few ethnographies contain condemnations of missionaries. Two presuppositions which may influence the antimissionary attitude are (1) that the …
Homosexuality in Cross-Cultural Perspective
In the American debate about sexuality, homosexuality is portrayed as an aberrance of choice by one side and as a natural outcome of biology by the other, sometimes with nuanced stances in between. Both sides tend to take for granted that the thing that they are talking about exists, and some argue that it is a unitary phenomenon found across cultures and through time. I question whether or not the English concept of homosexuality can serve as a …
Do We Need a Postmodern Anthropology for Mission in a Postcolonial World
There was a time when mission studies benefitted from a symbiotic relationship with the social sciences. However, it appears that relationship has stagnated and now is waning. The argument is made here, in the case of cultural anthropology both in Europe and the United States, that a once mutually beneficial though sometimes strained relationship has suffered a parting of the ways in recent decades. First, the article reviews the relationships be…
General and Theoretical
Anthropologists Versus Missionaries
Although a missionary once served as president of the Royal Anthropological Institute, anthropological enculturation commonly includes categorizing missionaries as enemies. The conditioning seems to be more covert than overt, since anthropology texbooks seldom deal specifically with missionary activity and few ethnographies contain condemnations of missionaries. Two presuppositions which may influence the antimissionary attitude are (1) that the …
Ethics and anthropology
Conclusion
This concluding article examines Oceanic cultural premises that define the relationships between people and the places they inhabit, taking local concepts of property as manifestations of these premises. Oceanic people share a common conception of the person as a relatum, one end of a relationship, because they share common ideas about how one becomes a person. Central to these conceptions is the common understanding of fetal inheritance: the ide…
Do We Need a Postmodern Anthropology for Mission in a Postcolonial World
There was a time when mission studies benefitted from a symbiotic relationship with the social sciences. However, it appears that relationship has stagnated and now is waning. The argument is made here, in the case of cultural anthropology both in Europe and the United States, that a once mutually beneficial though sometimes strained relationship has suffered a parting of the ways in recent decades. First, the article reviews the relationships be…
The Challenge of Teaching Mission in an Increasingly Mobile and Complex World
In a time when old groupings are breaking up, when people are on the move or fleeing conflict and settling elsewhere, when many people are multilingual and are competent in several cultural settings, doing mission has become an ever greater challenge than simple cross-cultural communication. How does one engage in mission on the run? How does one conduct missiological research in ephemeral community that is here today and gone tomorrow? How does …
Response to Priest, Ngolo and Stabell
Christopher Flanders and Werner Mischke, Honor, Shame, and the Gospel
Research in Progress
Homosexuality in Cross-Cultural Perspective
In the American debate about sexuality, homosexuality is portrayed as an aberrance of choice by one side and as a natural outcome of biology by the other, sometimes with nuanced stances in between. Both sides tend to take for granted that the thing that they are talking about exists, and some argue that it is a unitary phenomenon found across cultures and through time. I question whether or not the English concept of homosexuality can serve as a …
Sociology (5 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture (2 works) · Christian Theology and Mission (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Field (mathematics (2 works) · Political science (2 works)