Encountering the West
Subtitle: Christianity and the global cultural process : the African dimension
By: Lamin Sanneh.
Series: World Christian theology series
Publisher: Orbis Books
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Maryknoll, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
Subjects: Christianity and culture.; Missions.; Missions -- Africa.; Christianity and other religions.; Christianity and other religions -- Islam.; Islam -- Relations -- Christianity.; Religious pluralism -- Christianity.; Africa -- Civilization -- Western influences.
Description: Does religion reinforce the balkanization of cultural attitudes or does it help people transcend their culture? A noted scholar of world Christianity, Lamin Sanneh offers Westerners a perspective on such questions, a way to test the religio-cultural water and air in which they live.

He shows how modernity has made of moderns "cultural believers" and "religious agnostics," and how the stubborn refusal to confront this bias in both secular and religious culture depletes both Christianity and Western culture.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-276) and index.
"First published in Great Britain in 1993 by Marshall Pickering"--T.p. verso.