Roszczenia uniwersalne i kontekst kulturowy – misja i misjologia z perspektywy etnologicznej
Universal Claims and Cultural Context: Mission and Missiology from an Anthropological Perspective

Summary/Abstract: Although anthropology and missiology have been interlinked with each other since their beginnings as academic disciplines, the present relation between both is ambiguous – especially from an anthropological perspective. The paper aims to elucidate the reasons for this rather sceptic perception of Christian mission and missiology. At the same time, the work of anthropologists and missionaries or missiologists – both at the university and in the field – have various similarities and challenges in common. They start from a comparable situation and methodology, i.e. the encounter with “the other” and the mutual translation between the cultural “own” and the cultural “foreign.”On the example of the “Catholic Autochthonous Church” in the Ecuadorian and Peruvian Amazon, the article discusses the evolution of the Catholic mission in this region since the 1960s. It illustrates the analogies and differences in the anthropologists’ and missionaries’ approach to the indigenous “other” and reflects on the challenge of cultural translation.

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