Long before the Lele people of Papua New Guinea hadsignificant contact with the Western world and Christianity,they had developed a framework for understanding sicknessand healing with a strong emphasis on the unseen world. Thisstudy examines how mature Lele Christians of the EvangelicalChurch of Manus assess traditional health concepts in lightof their Christian faith and Scripture. By using cognitivetheory as an interpretive approach, this research serves asa case study to illustrate the mental processes that takeplace when Christians in an animistic context make sense oftheir traditional culture.Simon Herrmann spent 15 years in Papua NewGuinea, the United States and Malaysia. He now works as alecturer in Intercultural Theology at the InternationaleHochschule Liebenzell (IHL).
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