Religious Anthropology

1. Religious Anthropology Extra Credit Check Take out your Devices with Quizup App Open! When Helping Hurts Chapter 4 April 28, 2014

2. Distorted worldview review • How can material poverty be caused by: • A distorted worldview about God • A distorted worldview about Others • A distorted worldview about Creation • A distorted worldview about Self

3. Remember the story of Alisa Collins? • Few skills, no husband, and limited social network. • Bad environment: the “ghetto” (think about the definition of this word) • Obstacles to getting a job: • Not a lot of demand for high-school dropouts • Welfare penalizes those who make money • Government vocational training and programs are confusing and condescending • Child-care • Feelings of inferiority and inadequacy • Worldview Adjustment helped her: pp96-97

4. Field trip to Solidarity: • May 23: any red-flags on school calendar?

5. Helping without Hurting: part 3

6. Homework • Threaded Discussion 16 – Tonight by 9pm for extra credit

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8. Missiology? • What is missiology? • Why is Christian mission important? • What does it mean to live missionally? • What am I here for? • What is life for?

9. Living Missionally: • “If you want to help people we have to dive into people wade into the sea of humanity.”  • “Thus mission is more than just doing good things for people. It’s a primary means of helping people see what a Christian really is.” ― Hugh Halter and Matt Smay • “If we're going to impact our world in the name of Jesus, it will be because people like you and me took action in the power of the Spirit. Ever since the mission and ministry of Jesus, God has never stopped calling for a movement of "Little Jesuses" to follow him into the world and unleash the remarkable redemptive genius that lies in the very message we carry. Given the situation of the Church in the West, much will now depend on whether we are willing to break out of a stifling herd instinct and find God again in the context of the advancing kingdom of God.” ― Alan Hirsch

10. Short-Term Missions  not really a thing

11. Didn’t you just go on a Short-Term Trip? • Asked to come & return by the local church. • Finance$ and giving. • Partnership with locals. • Emphasis on relationship. • Cultural Training. • Long-Term Perspective. • Non-messiah mentality.

12. Local Missionaries • Think about your mission field. “If you want to help people we have to dive into people wade into the sea of humanity.”  • Don’t just think about people you know… also consider people you COULD know if you tried to know them. • What does your neighborhood look like?

13. This week’s homework • Talk to a neighbor in your neighborhood that you do not know (or rarely talk to) for more than 1 minute. Write a brief reflection describing the interaction and how you felt about it. Reflective writing due Friday. • Finish Threaded Discussion 16 by Thursday at 9pm.

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15. InterventionStages of Poverty Alleviation • Crisis – Earthquake, Tornado, Flood, Genocide, etc. • Relief – Stop the Bleeding • Rehabilitation – Restore to pre-crisis conditions • Development – Empower locals to move closer to Shalom

16. P105 • “One of the biggest mistakes that North American churches make – by far – is in applying relief in situations in which rehabilitation or development is the appropriate intervention.”

17. P106 - Who actually needs Relief? (#1) • Is there really a crisis at hand? • What happens if you don’t intervene? • To what degree is the individual personally responsible for the crisis? • Can the person help himself? • To what extent has this person already been receiving relief in the past? Will they be receiving such help again in the future?

18. Role Play: Do I need relief or something else? • Is there really a crisis at hand? • What happens if you don’t intervene? • To what degree is the individual personally responsible for the crisis? • Can the person help himself? • To what extent has this person already been receiving relief in the past? Will they be receiving such help again in the future?

19. Examples: • Neighborhood woman. • Jehovah Jireh Church

20. 3 Principles for effective Relief: • Seldom • Immediate • Temporary

21. In Pairs: • Research these past disasters and devise a relief plan for: • Haiti Earthquake • Indonesian Tsunami • Hurricane Katrina • Big Thompson Flood • Chernobyl Meltdown

22. This week’s homework • Talk to a neighbor in your neighborhood that you do not know (or rarely talk to) for more than 1 minute. Write a brief reflection describing the interaction and how you felt about it. Reflective writing due NEXT Friday. • Finish Threaded Discussion 16 by Thursday at 9pm.

24. Religious Anthropology When Helping Hurts Chapter 4 May 5, 2014 Final word on May 21 Field Trip?

25. Quick Recap of Relief Plans: • Haiti Earthquake • Indonesian Tsunami • Hurricane Katrina • Chernobyl Meltdown

26. Assess your Relief Plan based on: • P110 - Relieve Developmentally • Ensure participation of the affected population in the assessment, design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of the assistance program. • Conduct an initial assessment to provide an understanding of the disaster situation and to determine the nature of the response. • Respond when needs of an affected population are unmet by local people or organizations due to their inability or unwillingness to help. • Target assistance based on vulnerability and need, and provide it equitably and impartially. • Aid workers must possess appropriate qualifications, attitudes, and experience to plan and effectively implement appropriate assistance programs.

27. Discuss how you might improve your plan: • P110 - Relieve Developmentally • Ensure participation of the affected population in the assessment, design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of the assistance program. • Conduct an initial assessment to provide an understanding of the disaster situation and to determine the nature of the response. • Respond when needs of an affected population are unmet by local people or organizations due to their inability or unwillingness to help. • Target assistance based on vulnerability and need, and provide it equitably and impartially. • Aid workers must possess appropriate qualifications, attitudes, and experience to plan and effectively implement appropriate assistance programs.

29. Religious Anthropology When Helping Hurts Chapter 4 May 6, 2014 Opening Discussion: Alex and Mimi, May 21, yes or no? Define work in your own words (Everyone Answer!)

30. Dictionary.com • exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil. • something on which exertion or labor is expended; a task or undertaking • productive or operative activity. Define Worship in your own words. Is it possible to worship without work?

31. Work = Worship • Read pages 113-115 As a class, Discuss: • How can bad relief work inhibit worship? • How does that harm Shalom relationships?

32. On a blank piece of paper • Answer question#6 on page 122: You may use devices for research purposes. In your answers you must come up with at least 4 organizations operating in the Inland Empire. • Turn in answers to the period 3 inbox (back of class) at the end of class.

33. Homework • Talk to a neighbor in your neighborhood that you do not know (or rarely talk to) for more than 1 minute. Write a brief reflection describing the interaction and how you felt about it. Reflective writing due Friday.

34. Religious Anthropology When Helping Hurts Chapter 4 May 7, 2014 Opening Discussion: How was yesterday?

35. What is Paternalism? • How would you define it? • Dictionary.com: the system, principle, or practice of managing or governing individual, businesses, nations, etc., in the manner of a father dealing benevolently and often intrusively with his children: The employees objected to the paternalism of the old president. • A simplified guiding principle (p115): Avoid Paternalism. DO NOT do things for people that they can do themselves.

36. 5 Kinds of Paternalism: • Resource Paternalism. “I have stuff, therefore I am superior and need to intervene and take care of you.”

37. 5 Kinds of Paternalism: • Resource Paternalism. • Spiritual Paternalism. “Let me help you love Jesus like I do. I’m materially blessed because I’m spiritually healthy. And you’re poor because… well…” *awkward cough*

38. 5 Kinds of Paternalism: • Resource Paternalism. • Spiritual Paternalism. • Knowledge Paternalism. “I’m rich and educated, so I know more than you. So if you just follow my lead and do what I say, you’ll be a lot better off.”

39. 5 Kinds of Paternalism: • Resource Paternalism. • Spiritual Paternalism. • Knowledge Paternalism. • Labor Paternalism. “Look at my good work ethic. If you weren’t so lazy, you’d be able to be in a better situation like me!”

40. 5Kinds of Paternalism: • Resource Paternalism. • Spiritual Paternalism. • Knowledge Paternalism. • Labor Paternalism. • Managerial Paternalism. “I’m good at running things efficiently and effectively. Why don’t I take the wheel?”

41. 4 Kinds of Paternalism: • Resource Paternalism. • Spiritual Paternalism. • Knowledge Paternalism. • Labor Paternalism. • Managerial Paternalism. In table partners: Come up with (write down) an example of each of the 5 types of paternalism that you might experience in your life: in a business/school/missions/non-profit setting.

42. Homework • Talk to a neighbor in your neighborhood that you do not know (or rarely talk to) for more than 1 minute. Write a brief reflection describing the interaction and how you felt about it. Reflective writing due Friday. • Study for Friday’s Mini-Assessment: • Relief, Rehab, Development • Avoid Paternalism