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Kiwi Spirituality Viv Grigg April 2008
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How Do We Define a Pakeha Spirituality 1. Generational Visions 2. Cultural Values 3. What would a Pakeha Spirituality be? Viv Grigg April 2008
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KiwiKulture And Values (Pakeha - style) VALUES (Reality often opposite) GOALS & ASPIRATIONSSOCIAL STRUCTURE Harmony and Centring Fairness Integrity & Honesty National: sound economy, education for all, full employment, maintain equalitarian lifestyle for the purpose of leisure & pleasure Egalitarianism Independence & Individualism Male: a good "mate" (friend). Female: a nice lady i.e. friendly, kind, gracious, moralising force, liberated success. Nuclear Family (independent and self- sufficient) EgalitarianismSuccess: Is earned by hard work not by fate or chance Inclusiveness: one of the boys; play with team Hard Work An Economic Culture eternal mortgage Leadership is from the centre Friendship (Mateship)StatusControl Mechanisms Phlegmatic Cultural Temperament Achievement The Kiwi Way of Life Segmentation Ingenuity & pragmatismPossessionsTravel / Holidays Religious beliefs: Practical atheism Designer -styled paganism Hedonism as youth religion Zealous pluralism
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Three Polar Types of Society See notes on Three Polar types of society, comparing tribal, peasant and urban societies in other handout
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Modern WorldviewPost-Modern Worldview The "Modern Project"The "Pluralist Reality" MachineSystem Parts to the wholeInterrelated Law and orderOrder and chaos ClosedOpen ConstructionDeconstruction Essential principlesContextual "truths" StabilityFlux OrderChange Grand NarrativeMultiple Story lines TruthRelativity Inner EssenceSurface and image Historical ContextEndless succession of "nows" Purpose of the wholeParticipation in the particular CentringDispersal SubstanceSymbols Anti-spiritualSpirituality NaturalSupernatural
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Bibliography Grigg, Viv The Spirit of Christ and the Post-modern City: Transformative Revival Among Auckland’s Evangelicals and Pentecostals PhD Thesis, Auckland University Neil Darragh, “ A Pakeha Christian Spirituality,” in Counselling Issues, ed. Philip Culbertson (Auckland: Accent Publications, 1997). At Home in the Earth: Seeking an Earth-Centred Spirituality (Auckland: Accent Publications, 2000). Helen Bergin and Susan Smith, eds., Spirituality in Aotearoa New Zealand: Catholic Voices (Auckland: Accent Publications, 2002).
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