Yap: Political Leadership and Culture Change in an Island Society

Humanities Open Book Program, a joint initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon FoundationThe objectives of this book are to describe the traditional socio-political organization of Yap and to examine the dynamic interplay of traditional roles, rules, and values with those introduced in the contemporary situation of American-directed change. The ultimate considerations undertaken here are the political, social, and cultural adaptations and consequences of this directed change. The analytical focus for both traditional and contemporary situations includes the processes of succession and accession to leadership, of selection and rejection of leaders, of initiation, organization and direction of activities; and of decision-making

Gospel In A World Of Difference

...Okay, good. It symbolizes and something that we\u27re going to talk about today. Now, I want to share with you that your responses to this are the kind of responses that people that have to change to hear the gospel will have to your gospel. Some of them will be interested in it because, hey, it\u27s neat, it\u27s different. Something unusual happening there. And so they might want to listen to what you\u27re doing just because you\u27re different and because that\u27s something that is going on that they\u27re not familiar with. Some of them will be resentful because you\u27re asking them to change. You\u27re asking them to do something they haven\u27t done before. And so their response will be a response that comes out of something that is not really what your intention is for this event to have

Theology, News and Notes - Vol. 54, No. 02

Theology News & Notes was a theological journal published by Fuller Theological Seminary from 1954 through 2014.https://digitalcommons.fuller.edu/tnn/1159/thumbnail.jp

Yap

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Transforming culture : A Challenge for Christian mission

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Ministering Cross - Culturally. : An Incarnational Model for Personal Relationships.

Grand Rapids128 p, 22 cm