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A 'Circle in a Rectangle': Native Evangelicals, Trans-Indigenous Networks, and the Negotiation between Legitimation and Evasion
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A 'Circle in a Rectangle': Native Evangelicals, Trans-Indigenous Networks, and the Negotiation between Legitimation and Evasion
Yazar:
Purvis, Jason E., author.
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9780438122055
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1 electronic resource (362 pages)
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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-11(E), Section: A.
Advisors: Robin Wright.
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NAIITS (the North American Institute of Indigenous Theological Studies) is an academic program operated by a network of Indigenous people from various parts of the United States and Canada. Originally founded in the late 90s by four Native American Evangelicals (Terry LeBlanc, Richard Twiss, Randy Woodley, and Ray Aldred), NAIITS has established key connections with mainstream Evangelical institutions throughout North America. These connections have been established in a pragmatic effort to award accredited degrees as well as achieve theological and institutional legitimation.
This project's aim is to examine and illumine the various practices through which NAIITS theologians operate as a counter network whose purpose is to, through published theological texts and academic conferences, draw upon the legitimating power of dominant Evangelical networks while simultaneously attempting to destabilize and reprogram them. In other words, they adhere to Western structures only in so far as they intend to fundamentally reform them. Thus, with the assistance of Manuel Castells and his theory of communication power, they are acting as a counter-network attempting to \reprogram. the dominant Evangelical network.
I attempt to explain the contents of the NAIITS counter network with the help of Homi Bhabha and Ranajit Guha. Through mockery (which manifests in the form of joking and sarcasm) and cultural inversions, NAIITS theologians bring to light the arbitrary nature of Western academic modes of knowledge production. They then, through a series of culture inversions, articulate the Anglo-Dominated, Euro-American Evangelical network, by virtue of its involvement in colonialism and theological imperialism, as that which is further away from Biblical truth, as in need of radical social and cultural reform, and, thus, as the new mission field.
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School code: 0070
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