Re: [conculture] Re: The things one finds

On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Barry Garcia wrote:

> This is EXACTLY why i have banned proselytizing to the Daka-Pumdog in my
> conlang - consociety(yes, i'm working on the sound changes..... are those
> reasonable changes from "Taga-Bundok"? or should i not change "n" to
> "m"?).  I also made them fiercly protective of their traditions too.
>
This is about the third time that this discussion, or its varient, the
Name of God thread, has risen on this on this list (Conlang) while I have
been on it.  I'm now beginning to understand why it makes me feel
uncomfortable.  While the destruction of culture by missionaries is a Bad
Thing, thirty years of contextual theology going on in the Asian rim and
Africa is being ignored.  It's a field that I read with great fascination.
Maybe I'll do some concultural exploration in that direction some day.

Many indigenous churches do not favour more missionaries.  In
christianised societies like the Solomon Islands they simply feed off
established churches and each other.

- andrew.
--
Andrew Smith, Intheologus                       hobbit@earthlight.co.nz

        Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored;
        Light dies before thy uncreating word:
        Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall;
        And Universal Darkness buries All.
                        - Alexander Pope, The Dunciad, Book IV.