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Highlighting the role of cultures in both the development of the
Bible and in its subsequent reception around the world, The Peoples
Companion to the Bible enables students to see how social
locationincluding gender, ethnicity, social class, and cultural
pluralismhas figured in the ways particular peoples have understood
the biblical text. But it also helps students formulate their own
social location and biblical horizon as a key to understanding the
Bible and its import for them.
This fascinating probe into U.S. mission history spotlights four
cases: Junipero Serra, the Franciscan whose mission to California
natives has made him a candidate for sainthood; John Eliot, the
renowned Puritan missionary to Massachusetts Indians; Pierre-Jean
De Smet, the Jesuit missioner to the Indians of the Midwest; and
Henry Benjamin Whipple, who engineered the U.S. government's theft
of the Black Hills from the Sioux.
Writing from a Native American perspective, theologian George
Tinker probes American Indian culture, its vast religious and
cultural legacy, and its ambiguous relationship to the
tradition-historic Christianity-that colonized and converted it.
After five hundred years of conquest and social destruction, he
says, any useful reflection must come to terms with the political
state of Indian affairs and the political hopes and visions for
recovering the health and well-being of Indian communities. Does
Christian theology have a positive role to play? Tinker's work
offers an overview of contemporary native American culture and its
perilous state. Critical of recent liberal and New Age co-opting of
Native spiritual practices, Tinker also offers a critical
corrective to liberation theology. He shows how Native insights
into the Sacred Other and sacred space helpfully reconfigure
traditional ideas of God, Jesus' notion of the reign of God, and
our relation to the earth. From this basis he offers novel
proposals about cultural survival and identity, sustainability, and
the endangered health of Native Americans.
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