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2. Theological Students and HIV/AIDs
• Ministerial Challenge and Attitude Problem
within the churches
• Moving from God-talk to Human-talk,
particularly talk of the infected
• Learning through Praxis – Going out to the
people
• Training others and thus performing and
thus continuing in their mission and
ministry.

3. From Diffusion and Dependency to Community
orientation
Participation, Entertainment and Learning
Creating or being part of Community’s space
Being part of Community’s public space as Christian
Witnessing

4. Media and Approaches to Mission
 Creating a participatory and dialogical
public sphere (Habermas) in and through
the Alternative media
 Recognizing diverse audiences, contexts
and different languages– (city mission,
Industrial mission, global mission…Visual
and Virtual Hermeneutics) – (McLuhan)
 Engaging creatively and critically in the
audiences’ search for meanings - Gramsci

5. Mission
Creative
Tension
Church with
others missio Dei
Mediating
Salvation
Quest for
Justice
Evangelism
Liberation
Common
Witness
Ministry by
People of God
Witness to
people of
Other Living
Faiths
Action in
Hope
Theology
David Bosch’s Transforming Mission

6. Holistic Mission
Plurality of Mission
Prophetic Liberative
Nourishes
Culture
Building
Communities
Proclamation
Development-
oriented
Participatory
Dialogic
and
interactive
Developed from WCC’s Statements 1980 -2005
You are the light of
the world Unity

7. Prophetic
Liberating
mission
Nourishes
Culture
Building
Communities
Development-
oriented
Dialogic
mission
Plurality
of Mission
Communicating mission
conversion

8. Hinduism Judaism
Jainism
Buddhism
Christianity
Islam
Greek, Egyptian,
Roman religions
Mission – engage in this
search for God – engaging
with people in search for
meanings of God, life and
neighbor

9. Jesus Engaged in others’
search for meanings
Jesus often listens to his
audiences
Jesus accepted his listeners
‘as they were’

10. Therukoothu and Pavaikoothu
Spectator to Spect-actor (Boal)
Character to Care-actor (Sri
Narayana Guru)
Communicator to Communi-actor
(Bhaktin)
Taking Theologians to streets and
pavement dwellers

11. Mass
Media
Market Pressure/Profit
motive/increasing space
Negative
/Stereotype
reporting as
Practice
Popularizing
strange things -
fundamentalism
Constructing
Realities:
Turning reality
into a myth…
Media refers to TV/Radio/Newspapers/Magazines/Internet…
Information
Communication
Entertainment
Rich, powerful,
professionals
get more space

12. Alternative
Media and
Mission
Sharing the
Gospel
Serving
Christian
Community
New Spirituality,
Alternative media
and mission
Ecumenical
Media as
alternative
Interacting wit
Communities
Networking
different
Communities
Alternative
Media for
Development
Net as
Alternative
Media
Training Priests
and
Missionaries
Banking the
Knowledge
Alternative - Media
Education as
mission
Alternative
media and
cultural groups

13. Community
media
characteristics
Dialogic, democratic,
communitarian, local,
participation
Voice of
voiceless,
minorities
and others
Cheap, easy
access, non-
profit, simple,
non-
professional
Towards
Social
change,
human
dignity
and
development
Intercultural in nature,
culturally rooted, folk
culture, updated
interactive technology
Alternative
perspectives and
practices
Space for
disabled,
HIV/AIDs
infected,
refugees,
Eunuchs, and
less privileged
people
Promote a
culture of
peace and
harmony

14. HIV/AIDS PROBLEM in INDIA
 Awareness about the infection
 Fear-mongering about AIDs
 Attitude towards infected
 Ignorance about the Treatment
 Confusion about the local medicines
 Care and Treatment – a big investment
 Working together – too many NGOs and No
network

15. Estimated numbers of adults and children living with
HIV/AIDS, end 2004 in India
Group
Living with
HIV/AIDS
Adults 5,000,000
Women 1,900,000
Children 120,000
Total 5,100,000
Adult HIV prevalence
estimate
0.9%
http://www.avert.org/indiaaids.htm

16. Theological Students in the Bangalore pavement
performing Street Theatre

18. Muppets and Puppets on the Show – Recently included