Indaba!: A Way of Listening, Engaging, and Understanding across the Anglican Communion
Indaba! depicts the adventures and challenges of participants who explored mutual listening and understanding across the worldwide Anglican Communion through the innovative Continuing Indaba project. Indaba is an African Zulu cultural process for engaging differences of view on a shared concern. Introduced to the Anglican Communion for the 2008 Lambeth Conference, it has been adapted and used as a transformative resource for church, interfaith, and civic organizations to use alongside other processes of relationship-building, conflict transformation, reconciliation, decision-making, and governance.

As a groundbreaking book, Indaba! shares findings from a cross-cultural research team who traveled with the participants, documenting their observations through interviews and survey research. The wisdom and practices of this indigenous cultural tradition offer fresh insights on how to maintain healthy and vital communities that respect differences of culture, belief, and viewpoint in moving forward together. The use of indaba in contemporary global religious and civic life offers a path forward for genuine postcolonial relationships, partnerships, and mission, grounded in deeper understanding and mutual respect.

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Indaba!: A Way of Listening, Engaging, and Understanding across the Anglican Communion
Indaba! depicts the adventures and challenges of participants who explored mutual listening and understanding across the worldwide Anglican Communion through the innovative Continuing Indaba project. Indaba is an African Zulu cultural process for engaging differences of view on a shared concern. Introduced to the Anglican Communion for the 2008 Lambeth Conference, it has been adapted and used as a transformative resource for church, interfaith, and civic organizations to use alongside other processes of relationship-building, conflict transformation, reconciliation, decision-making, and governance.

As a groundbreaking book, Indaba! shares findings from a cross-cultural research team who traveled with the participants, documenting their observations through interviews and survey research. The wisdom and practices of this indigenous cultural tradition offer fresh insights on how to maintain healthy and vital communities that respect differences of culture, belief, and viewpoint in moving forward together. The use of indaba in contemporary global religious and civic life offers a path forward for genuine postcolonial relationships, partnerships, and mission, grounded in deeper understanding and mutual respect.

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Indaba!: A Way of Listening, Engaging, and Understanding across the Anglican Communion

Indaba!: A Way of Listening, Engaging, and Understanding across the Anglican Communion

by Paula D. Nesbitt
Indaba!: A Way of Listening, Engaging, and Understanding across the Anglican Communion

Indaba!: A Way of Listening, Engaging, and Understanding across the Anglican Communion

by Paula D. Nesbitt

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Indaba! depicts the adventures and challenges of participants who explored mutual listening and understanding across the worldwide Anglican Communion through the innovative Continuing Indaba project. Indaba is an African Zulu cultural process for engaging differences of view on a shared concern. Introduced to the Anglican Communion for the 2008 Lambeth Conference, it has been adapted and used as a transformative resource for church, interfaith, and civic organizations to use alongside other processes of relationship-building, conflict transformation, reconciliation, decision-making, and governance.

As a groundbreaking book, Indaba! shares findings from a cross-cultural research team who traveled with the participants, documenting their observations through interviews and survey research. The wisdom and practices of this indigenous cultural tradition offer fresh insights on how to maintain healthy and vital communities that respect differences of culture, belief, and viewpoint in moving forward together. The use of indaba in contemporary global religious and civic life offers a path forward for genuine postcolonial relationships, partnerships, and mission, grounded in deeper understanding and mutual respect.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780819233172
Publisher: Church Publishing, Incorporated
Publication date: 02/01/2017
Pages: 288
Product dimensions: 5.30(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

PAULA D. NESBITT, PhD, MDiv, Harvard, has taught sociology of religion in seminaries and universities over the past 25 years, including the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Denver. At the Graduate Theological Union (Berkeley, California) since 2011, she has conducted research, consulted, and spoken on indaba and other topics locally and internationally. Ordained to the Episcopal priesthood, she is active at parish, diocesan, and churchwide levels, and currently serves on the Interanglican Women's Network Steering Group. She has authored, co-authored, or edited several books, book chapters, and numerous articles on a range of topics.

Table of Contents

Introduction v

1 Indabo as an Anglican Communion Adventure 1

2 Preparing for the Journey: The Continuing Indaba Project 29

3 Touching Ground Zero: The Search for Common Ground in New York, Derby, and Mumbai 51

4 Siblings in a Global Family: Toronto, Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui, and Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. Joanna Sadgrove 77

5 Unity in Diversity: A Safari across Differences in Saldanha Bay, Ho, and Mbeere Mkunga H. P. Mtingete 101

6 "If I Had a Cow like That…": A Quest for Mutual Mission in Western Tanganyika, El Camino Real, and Gloucester 125

7 Reflections on the Journey: insights, "Indaba Moments," and Meaningful Conversation 151

8 Other indabas across the Anglican Communion 183

9 Indaba and the Future 209

Appendix About the Evaluation Research: Continuing Indaba and Mutual Listening Project 231

Bibliography 243

About the Author and Contributors 261

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