Indigenous Spirituality

Filipino Spirituality

or New Zealand- Aotearoa Spirituality

or Post-modern Spirituality

Visit and analyse DJ culture.

of African Spirituality

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Readings

Africa

Abeledo, Francesco Pierli and  Yago. (2002). The Challenge of a Crucified People. In The Slums -- A Challenge to Evangelization. Kenya: Paulines Publications Africa. ISBN 9966218343

African-American

Cone, James H. (1972). God and Black Suffering. In Spirituals and the Blues. An Interpretation (pp. 52-73). New York: Seabury Press. ML3556 .C66, ISBN 0883448432

India

Longchar, A. W. and L. E. Davis (1999). Dancing with the Land: Significance of Land for Doing Tribal Theology. Doing Theology With Tribal Resources. Jorhat, Tribal Study Centre.  ISBN 9810040245

Arles, Siga, (2010)>The State of Missions Studies in India. An Overview and Assessment of Publications and Publishing. In The International Bulletin of Missionary Research. July 2010

New Zealand

Neil Darragh, “ A Pakeha Christian Spirituality,” in Counselling Issues, ed. Philip Culbertson (Auckland: Accent Publications, 1997).
Neil Darragh, At Home in the Earth: Seeking an Earth-Centred Spirituality (Auckland: Accent Publications, 2000).
Helen Bergin and Susan Smith, eds., Spirituality in Aotearoa New Zealand: Catholic Voices (Auckland: Accent Publications, 2002).
Grigg, Viv, The Spirit of Christ and the Postmodern City. Emeth Press.

Post-Modern

Grigg, Viv. (2009). Spirit, Kingdom and Postmodern City In The Holy Spirit and the Postmodern City: Transformative Revival Among Auckland's Evangelicals and Pentecostals. Asbury, KY: Emeth Press. ISBN0981958249
Scharen, Christian. (2006). One Step Closer: Why U2 Matters to Those Seeking God. Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, Baker Publishing. ML421.U2 S33 2006, ISBN 1587431696

Philippines

Capaque, George N. (c2000) PAGBUBUKAS-LOOB: A Filipino Evangelical Theology of Spirituality. Excerpt from PhD Thesis.
Flavier, Juan M. (1974). Ka Berong, Albularyo. In My Friends in the Barrios. Manila: New Day Publishers. ISBN 9711003171
Jocano, F. Landa. (1980). The Coming of the Gods. In Outline of Philippine Mythology. Manila: Centro Escolar University Research and Development Center.
Ligo, Arche. (1993). Liberation Themes in Philippine Popular Religiosity: A Case Study. Voices from the Third World, XVI (2), 117-142. ISBN 0785250263
Demetrio, Francisco. (1968). Creation Myths among the Early Filipinos. Asian Folklore Studies, Vol. 27, No. 1. Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture. pp. 41-79. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1177800

South America

Gutierrez, Gustavo. (1984). We Drink from our Own Wells: The Spiritual Journey of a People. New York: Orbis Books; London: SCM Press. BR600 .G8713 2003 ISBN 1570754969
Hanks, Thomas. (1983). God So Loved the Third World: The Biblical Vocabulary of Oppression. Maryknoll: Orbis. BS680.P47 H36 2000, ISBN 1579104673
Tamez, Elsa. (1982). Bible of the Oppressed. Maryknoll: Orbis. BS670 .T2613 1982, ISBN 1597525553 
Villafañe, Eldin. (1993). The Liberating Spirit: Toward an Hispanic American Pentecostal Social Ethic. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans. ISBN 0802807283

Related Readings

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Learning Objectives

1.Value: to become sensitive to the different cultural starting points and emphases in the emergence of a culturally real spirituality.

2. Skill: Identify some inital patterns of discerning the crore values of teh culture and how they affect spirituality.

Action & Assignments

1. integrate your observations on slum and indgenous spirituallity with insights from these readings into your paper.

2. Growth group. Ask about their cultural view of God, and sin, and what is a good man a godly woman. Report

3. Continue examien exercise.

4. Remember 1000 pages of reading, and simple reports per chapter or book.

Conversations

How do context, culture, habitat, land, land rights affect spirituality? Can you be fully spiritual without land and with a fractured culture?

2. What are the characteristscs of postmodern culture that determne your spirituality? Entering a new habitat and culture, how will that change the nature of your spirituality?