Lindy Backues
Biographic Data
| ID | 223720 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lindy Backues |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lindy |
| FAMILY NAME | Backues |
| SIGNATURE | BACKUES L |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Faithfully Praying in the Same Direction–Together
This article explores the development and impact of a profound interfaith friendship between an American Christian and an Indonesian Muslim, highlighting collaborative efforts to promote mutual understanding and respect amidst diverse religious backgrounds. The authors recount their individual journeys, their own cultural exchanges, and the challenges they have faced in bridging religious divides. By way of both academic analysis and personal ref…
Beyond ‘’Guesthood”
Introduction 1Christian engagement in grassroots, community development has long been marked by a tension between conviction and caution: between the desire to act faithfully out of a thick theological tradition and the fear that doing so will reproduce domination, exclusion, or cultural imposition.In response, many faith-based organizations have gravitated toward intentionally modest, ambiguous, or minimalist theological self-descriptions-postur…
Response to Timothy Larsen’s “British Social Anthropologists and Missionaries in the Twentieth Century”
Merely Rearranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic
Our present situation finds us navigating a ship while avoiding at least three treacherous and menacing icebergs. The first is the global environmental crisis we face. By itself, this iceberg threatens to sink our ship, yet we seem blissfully to voyage along, either completely unaware of the dangers it poses or in complete denial that anything so menacing could possibly be lurking just over the rail of our ship. The second iceberg is the global p…
Ecce Homo
News and Opinions
Engaging the Religiously Committed Other
Anthropology has two tasks: the scientific task of studying human beings and the instrumental task of promoting human flourishing. To date, the scientific task has been constrained by secularism, and the instrumental task by the philosophy and values of liberalism. These constraints have caused religiously based scholarship to be excluded from anthropology's discourse, to the detriment of both tasks. The call for papers for the 2009 meetings of t…
Engaging the Religiously Committed Other
Anthropology has two tasks: the scientific task of studying human beings and the instrumental task of promoting human flourishing. To date, the scientific task has been constrained by secularism, and the instrumental task by the philosophy and values of liberalism. These constraints have caused religiously based scholarship to be excluded from anthropology's discourse, to the detriment of both tasks. The call for papers for the 2009 meetings of t…
Engaging the Religiously Committed Other
Anthropology has two tasks: the scientific task of studying human beings and the instrumental task of promoting human flourishing. To date, the scientific task has been constrained by secularism, and the instrumental task by the philosophy and values of liberalism. These constraints have caused religiously based scholarship to be excluded from anthropology's discourse, to the detriment of both tasks. The call for papers for the 2009 meetings of t…
Ecce Homo
News and Opinions
Merely Rearranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic
Our present situation finds us navigating a ship while avoiding at least three treacherous and menacing icebergs. The first is the global environmental crisis we face. By itself, this iceberg threatens to sink our ship, yet we seem blissfully to voyage along, either completely unaware of the dangers it poses or in complete denial that anything so menacing could possibly be lurking just over the rail of our ship. The second iceberg is the global p…
Response to Timothy Larsen’s “British Social Anthropologists and Missionaries in the Twentieth Century”
Faithfully Praying in the Same Direction–Together
This article explores the development and impact of a profound interfaith friendship between an American Christian and an Indonesian Muslim, highlighting collaborative efforts to promote mutual understanding and respect amidst diverse religious backgrounds. The authors recount their individual journeys, their own cultural exchanges, and the challenges they have faced in bridging religious divides. By way of both academic analysis and personal ref…
Beyond ‘’Guesthood”
Introduction 1Christian engagement in grassroots, community development has long been marked by a tension between conviction and caution: between the desire to act faithfully out of a thick theological tradition and the fear that doing so will reproduce domination, exclusion, or cultural imposition.In response, many faith-based organizations have gravitated toward intentionally modest, ambiguous, or minimalist theological self-descriptions-postur…
History (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · History (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (2 works) · Secularism (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Anthropology (1 work)