Evangelical Theologies of Liberation and Justice by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2019-09-09T16:00:00+00:00

in Indian tribal society individual self-interest was inextricably intertwined with tribal interests; that is, the general good and the individual good were taken to be virtually identical. Laslett’s “onion skin” analogy aptly illustrates the mythical quality of individuality in traditional Indian society. To apprehend the individual in tribal Indian society, he says, we would have to peel off a succession of group-oriented and derived attitudes as layers of onionskin. The individual turns out to be a succession of metaphorical layers of group attitudes, which ends up with nothing remaining. 16

An ethic of liberation and freedom built solely on an assertion of individual rights, therefore, would not be likely to emerge from Native North American or other Indigenous contexts still connected to traditional ways of being and thinking, because

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