11. Goal:
1. Give you tools to share the gospel cross-culturally
2. Give you an anthropological lens
12. Course Description:
This course examines principles of anthropology within
the context of missiology for the purpose of developing a
tool kit that will enable students to analyze and engage
people groups living within various cultural contexts.
15. Topics
1. Culture & Language
2. How to read an anthropological and sociological study
3. Identity: Age, Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Class
4. Social Structure: How Family life and society is organized
5. Religion: Beliefs & Practices
6. Strategizing on Reaching People Cross-Culturally
7. Contextualizing Your Ministry.
16. Final Assignment
Chapter 1 — Proposal on a Culture, People Group, or Society
Chapter 2 — Review a Study of the Culture
Chapter 3 — Identity, Race, Ethnicity, and Social Structure of the Society
Chapter 4 — Analyze a Religious or Cultural Artifact of the Culture
Chapter 5 — Religious Beliefs and Practices of the Culture
Chapter 6 — Evaluate Missionary Work Carried Out
Chapter 7 — Propose a Strategy to Reach the Culture
17. Field Projects Outside of Class
1. Visit and Report on one Cultural Event related to your research project.
2. Interview and Report on two ministries serving the society.
3. Complete and Report on one intercultural Christian Service Project *
4. Optional: Make-Up a Missed class by visiting a 2nd
18. Field Projects Outside of Class
1. Visit and Report on one Cultural Event related to your research project.
2. Interview and Report on two ministries serving the society.
3. Complete and Report on one intercultural Christian Service Project
4. Optional: Make-Up a Missed class by visiting a 2nd cultural event
23. Fiddler on the Roof, 1971
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24. Ethnographic Analysis
1. Space & Structure — Where is the society located & how is it organize?
2. Roles — What are the roles of people in the society?
3. Rituals — What rituals did you see?
4. Cultural Artifacts — what cultural and religious artifacts did you see?
5. Values — What values do they hold, and how did you
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26. Assignment: Analyze film Jan 12
1. Get in groups of 3
2. Tell me your group so I can enter it in Halo
3. Pick a scene you want to analyze and present on Jan 12
27. Analysis a Movie Scene (due Jan 12)
• Get in your group of 3
• Pick a scene from a
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• Watch the scene (you don’t have to watch the whole movie)
• Read up on the production at imdb.com
• Read up on the culture depicted in the scene
• Put together a 5-10 minute presentation
• Presentations on Friday, January 12
28. Read and Discuss Wed. Jan 12
1. The Body Ritual of the naciremA
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