- A more general philosophical discussion is Ming Xie, ed., The Agon of
Interpretations: Towards a Critical Intercultural Hermeneutics (Toronto:
University of Toronto Press, 2014). - For a brilliant discussion of cultures as constituted by internal differentia-
tion, even occlusion and marginalization, see Néstor Medina, Mestizaje:
Remapping Race, Culture, and Faith in Latina/o Catholicism (Maryknoll:
Orbis Books, 2009). - Here in part to connect to how the cultural-linguistic domain has emerged
in contemporary theological discourse, largely in the wake of George
A. Lindbeck, The Nature of Doctrine: Religion and Theology in a Postliberal
Age (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1984). - See here my The Dialogical Spirit: Christian Reason and Theological Method
for the Third Millennium (Eugene, Ore.: Cascade Books, 2014). - Traditioning here refers to the ongoing work of forging Christian faith for
the next generation; see Dale T. Irvin, Christian Histories, Christian
Traditioning: Rendering Accounts (Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 1988). - Unless otherwise noted, all scripture quotations will be from the New
Revised Standard Version. - See more on this in Chap. 4 of my The Spirit Poured Out on All Flesh:
Pentecostalism and the Possibility of Global Theology (Grand Rapids: Baker
Academic , 2005). - Thus the import of translation projects; see, e.g., Lamin Sanneh,
Translating the Message: The Missionary Impact on Culture (Maryknoll:
Orbis Books, 1989). - I discuss some of these developments in my Who is the Holy Spirit? A Walk
with the Apostles (Brewster, Mass.: Paraclete Press, 2011), especially parts
II & III. - For my thoughts on migration in conversation with the Acts narrative, see
Yong, “The Im/Migrant Spirit: De/Constructing a Pentecostal Theology
of Migration,” in Theology of Migration in the Abrahamic Religions , ed.
Peter C. Phan and Elaine Padilla, Christianities of the World (New York:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), 133–53, and “Informality, Illegality, and
Improvisation: Theological Refl ections on Money, Migration, and Ministry
in Chinatown, NYC, and Beyond,” in New Overtures: Asian North
American Theology in the 21st Century—Essays in Honor of Fumitaka
Matsuoka , ed. Eleazar S. Fernandez (Upland, Calif.: Sopher Press, 2012),
248–268, originally published in the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and
Religion 3:2 (2012) ( http://www.raceandreligion.com/JRER/
Volume3%282012%29.html ). - In contrast here to de-culturation , wherein specifi c cultural contributions
are so transformed through cross-cultural syncretism that they have lost
their particularity. I get the notion of de-culturation from Rubén Rosario
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