Week 8, to Bryan:
Yes, we both cued in to the Hybridization issue, Bryan... and I think we essentially agree on what that potentially means for the changing ways for Jesus-followers to think about and interact with the global cultural issues. One of the things our group has focused on in the wiki somewhat is how to use global media to combat the loss or destruction of indigenous cultures. But as the evaluations we got from our classmates showed, we had not sufficiently argued for why that was important for Christians to be involved in, nor how we would really do it. If we apply the thoughts from Pieterse this week to that issue, it seems (as I think we all have discussed in our analysis this week) that the task may be less for us to work to protect indigenous cultures, and more for us to advocate for them so that they all can have a voice and participate in the hybridization that is happening due to globalization.
You said as much in your analysis, Bryan: "Assuming we trust each culture to be able to deal with modernity and capitalism and whatever else is being peddled around the globe today without being subsumed into some hypothetical homogenous culture, then one thing we can do is simply make sure that everyone has a chance to be exposed to, evaluate, and evolve these cultural artefacts to their liking."
That is something, perhaps, for us to add to our wiki, maybe even in place of the focus on protection.
I'm not sure how we focus in on Global Media through that, however. Perhaps we could advocate for Jesus-followers to use media on the global scale to do that advocating... sort of akin to what we have already described as finding ways to represent the voices that are misrepresented or underrepresented. Both at home and abroad.
Yes, we both cued in to the Hybridization issue, Bryan... and I think we essentially agree on what that potentially means for the changing ways for Jesus-followers to think about and interact with the global cultural issues. One of the things our group has focused on in the wiki somewhat is how to use global media to combat the loss or destruction of indigenous cultures. But as the evaluations we got from our classmates showed, we had not sufficiently argued for why that was important for Christians to be involved in, nor how we would really do it. If we apply the thoughts from Pieterse this week to that issue, it seems (as I think we all have discussed in our analysis this week) that the task may be less for us to work to protect indigenous cultures, and more for us to advocate for them so that they all can have a voice and participate in the hybridization that is happening due to globalization.
You said as much in your analysis, Bryan: "Assuming we trust each culture to be able to deal with modernity and capitalism and whatever else is being peddled around the globe today without being subsumed into some hypothetical homogenous culture, then one thing we can do is simply make sure that everyone has a chance to be exposed to, evaluate, and evolve these cultural artefacts to their liking."
That is something, perhaps, for us to add to our wiki, maybe even in place of the focus on protection.
I'm not sure how we focus in on Global Media through that, however. Perhaps we could advocate for Jesus-followers to use media on the global scale to do that advocating... sort of akin to what we have already described as finding ways to represent the voices that are misrepresented or underrepresented. Both at home and abroad.
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