Worldview for Christian Witness

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part 1- The Perspective

1. Why Should Christians Study Worldview?

2. People, Worldview, and Change

3. Critical Realism

4. Current Approaches of Non-anthropologists

5. Other Approaches: Anthropological

6. Worldview, Religion, and Subsystems

Part 2- Characteristics of Worldviews

7. Functions of Worldview

8. Universals: Categorization, Person/Group

9. Worldview Universals: Relationship, Causality

10. Universals: Time/Event, Space/Material World

11. Worldview Orientations and Types

12. Worldview Configurations

13. Discovering Worldview

14. What Are We Taking to the World?

15. How Are Worldviews Changed?

Part 3- Worldview Change

16. Obstacles and Opportunities in Worldview Change: Person/Group

17. Obstacles and Opportunities in Worldview Change II: Categorization, Causality, Time, Space, Relationship

18. Patterns of Worldview Change

19. Strategies for Constructive Change

20. Reaching Peoples of Three Types

21. Wrapping Things Up

Appendix A: History of the Concept of Worldview in American Anthropology

Appendix B: Additional Worldvew Configurations

Appendix C: Additional Folklore for Discovering Worldview Myths

Bibliography

Index