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INTERLINKINTERLINK Edited by the Anthropos Institute ed. by the Anthropos Institute No 26 Chicago, January 2014 From the desk of the coordinator caucus meeting of the generalate in January 2014. Kirby will also have meeting time with two members of the ad hoc committee²Michael and All members of the Society of the Divine Word are Zackarias²since all will be in Rome. A follow-up to strive to embody the SVD ³$QWKURSRVtradition,´ with the generalate and caucus and extended word as modeled by Joseph Freinademetz in China. by the committee is planned for June 2014. Former Superior General Antonio Pernia stated that $QWKURSRV,QVWLWXWHVKRXOG³DFWDVWKHJXDUGLDQ As another follow-up to the 2012 Toronto meeting, RI WKH $QWKURSRV WUDGLWLRQ RI WKH 6RFLHW\´ several AI members and other SVD contributed (VERBUM SVD 45, 1 (2004), 34). This issue of articles on aspects of interculturality for the first Interlink presents the 2013 activities of individuals issue of Verbum SVD in 2013. and institutions within the global network of Anthropos Institute (AI) to fulfill this purpose. I AI members Guus Cremers (NEB) and Johann encourage you to survey this material to get a sense =¶JUDJJHQ (SWI), who had worked some years in of what is being done in this regards. Indonesia and Papua New Guinea respectivley, died in 2013. Francis Pereira (INE) was admitted as a Along with local efforts, AI members continued in new member in 2013. His doctoral studies, teaching, 2013 to be involved on a Society-wide basis with and writing have been in the areas of theological follow-up actions to the 2012 SVD General anthropology and contextual theology, and he is the Chapter ³)URP (YHU\ 1DWLRQ 3HRSOH DQG director of the newly-established Sanskruti Kendra - /DQJXDJH6KDULQJ,QWHUFXOWXUDO/LIHDQG0LVVLRQ´ Tribal Cultural and Research Centre in Orisha The AI Toronto proposal was enthusiastically (Orissa), India. There are now thirty-eight full accepted by Superior General Heinz Kulüke and the members and five associate members of General Council at their December 2012 caucus Anthropos Institute. Hugo Huber is the oldest in meetings with the zonal coordinators and the terms of age (94) and years of membership in generalate secretaries /coordinators. Under this Anthropos Institute (58). Roger Munsi Vanzila plan, the AI Coordinating Council²consisting of from Congo and working in Japan is the youngest Philip Gibbs (PNG), S.M. Michael (INM), and AI member at the age of 46. Roger Schroeder (USC)²will serve as a Resource Committee to facilitate the implementation of the As the AI International Coordinator, I had a very ³&RQJUHJDWLRQDO 'LUHFWLRQV´ LQ WHUPV RI fruitful two-week visit in India in August. I was interculturality. able to meet individually and collectively with the AI members and visit their places of work²Lazar These AI efforts in 2013 fell primarily on the Gnanaprakasam (INH), Augustin Kanjamala (INM), shoulders of an Ad Hoc Work Group to develop S.M. Michael (INM), M.T. Joseph (INM), and K. the content and format of a set of modules that ³ ´ Jose (ING). It was a great opportunity to discuss could be adapted for post-Chapter Society use. how the Indian AI members can do more in This committee consists of four AI members Gibbs terms of collaboration and supporting the SVD (PNG), Michael (INM), Alexander Rödlach (USC), work in the provinces and region. Since that and Jon Kirby (USC) as committee chair, and meeting, Pereira (INE) has become the sixth AI missiologist Victor Zackarias (INM/Rome). The member in India. It was also exciting to discuss the generalate financially supported the participation of potential of SVD and SSpS collaboration in Kirby and Rödlach in workshops presenting Milton North East India (ING), where the first Sister of %HQQHWW¶V ³'HYHORSPHQWDO 0RGHO RI ,QWHUFXOWXUDO the SSpS (Sr. Janet) is completing a doctorate in inventories and 6HQVLWLYLW\´ '0,6 ZLWK YDULRXV anthropology. 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It was in the first issue (344). helpful for me to understand the past, present, and future possibilities of Monumenta Serica and to 7KH VHFWLRQ RI ³=HLWVFKULIWHQVFKDX´ LV D ULFK discuss ways of improving communication between resource with the titles of articles from an the international networks of Monumenta Serica impressive list of 130 journals specialized especially and Anthropos Institute. in the field of social and religious sciences. It is a great service made possible through the Anthropos Let me include other AI reminders and information. ,QVWLWXWH¶VOLEUDU\DW6W$XJXVWLQ AI members are strongly encouraged to submit articles and to offer to write book reviews for the It should be noted that Anthropos is available on Anthropos journal. If interested, contact editor JSTOR. It may be interesting to note that the Dariusz Piwowarczyk at [email protected]. The following articles from Anthropos were accessed homepage of Anthropos Institute on the SVD Curia most often (more than 1500 times) in the past 3 website (http://www.svdcuria.org) is a resource of years from around the globe: M. Sökefeld: basic information. I just updated the membership Reconsidering Identity (2001: 527-544); J. Hsieh: list and addresses this month. Please notify me of &KLQD¶V 1DWLRQDOLWLHV 3ROLF\ -20); A. any mistakes or updates. Dundes Renteln: The Concept of Human Rights (1988: 343-369); R.G. Bednarik: Art Origins (1994: The Anthropos Institute list server, established at 169-180); B. Lawergren: The Origin of Musical Creighton University, USA, offers a possibility for Instruments and Sounds (1988: 31-45); O. Gächter: the exchange of information and ideas among Evil and Suffering in Hinduism (1998: 393-403); A members of Anthropos Institute. Presently, twenty- %RãNRYLü7KH0HDQLQJRI0D\D0\WKV - two people are registered on the list server. If you 212). Thanks to Gächter for this information. wish to add your name to this list server, go to the Consult the website (www.anthropos-journal.de) for site by either clicking on the URL below or by further information regarding the journal. copying and pasting it into your web browser: http://lists.creighton.edu/mailman/listinfo/anthropos. Anthropology & Mission (A&M) No 47 (July 2013) You will receive a notification of that registration. was published, and No 48 (December 2013) was Direct any technical questions to Alexander delayed and will be coming out in early 2014. Each Rödlach at [email protected]. contains 16 pages of reviews of relevant books and articles for missionaries in the field. The book Please contact me, regarding any business related to reviews were prepared by Othmar Gächter and Ivan the international network of Anthropos Institute at Lobo, SVD, and the article reviews by Joachim [email protected] Piepke. Between October 2012 and October 2013, there were requests for one book and five articles Best wishes for 2014! from A&M 47; one article from A&M 46; and six articles from earlier issues. Remember that you can Roger Schroeder, SVD find current and back issues of Anthropology & Coordinator Mission on the Anthropos webpage of the generalate website http://svdcuria.org. Publications of the Institute The 45th publication in the Collectanea Instituti Anthropos series appeared in September, 2013: The official publications of the Institute are Marten, Michael, and Katja Neumann, eds. Saints entrusted to the Editorial Board at Anthropos and Cultural Trans-/Mission (208 pp.). See Institute St. Augustin. Dariusz Piwowarczyk serves http://www.anthropos.eu/anthropos/publications/col as Editor-in-Chief, and Othmar Gächter and lectanea/books/45-collectanea.php. Joachim Piepke as members of the editorial team. The two volumes of Anthropos 2013 with 784 pages offer 25 articles, 19 reports and commentaries, and Reports by Individual Members 137 book reviews. Six Anthropos Institute members contributed to these two issues of These reports include publications, conference Anthropos. Gregor Neonbasu wrote an article, papers, teaching and other activities/events during HQWLWOHG³$Q2XWOLQHRI+XPDQLW\$7UDYHO%DFN 2013. Materials in press will normally be LQWR WKH /RFDO &RQWH[W´ Sp. 163 ff.). Andrzej mentioned when they appear. Members, however, Bronk and John Z¶JUDJJHQ(+) contributed reports: sometimes also report on their works in progress to ³:K\ ,V D 3UHVXSSRVLWLRQOHVV DQG LQ 7KLV 6HQVH communicate what they are currently working on. 2EMHFWLYH6WXG\RI5HOLJLRQ,PSRVVLEOH"´ II These reports reflect the great diversity and depth of DQG³7Ke Bird of Paradise, the Heraldic Animal of the work of the members of Anthropos Institute. 3DSXD 1HZ *XLQHD´ SS II , respectively. There are 30 individual reports. 'DULXV 3LZRZDUF]\N ZURWH ³Walking in Iroquois 0RFFDVLQV´ for WKH ³0LV]HOOHQ´ VHFWLRQ -730). Mario Aguilar Othmar Gächter wrote two books reviews, and Aguilar completed 20 years of teaching and research Andrzej Bronk and Alexander Rödlach each wrote at the University of St. Andrews where he is 2 professor of religion and politics and director of the Andrzej Bronk centre for the study of religion and politics (CSRP). Bronk retired three years ago from the faculty of During 2013 he was elected Fellow of the Royal John Paul II Catholic University Lublin (KUL). He Historical Society (FRHistS) for his works on the is now teaching methodology and semiotics at the social history of the Catholic Church in Chile (9 University of Economy/Institute of Cultural Studies, volumes), his history of theology in Latin America and four of his students completed their master (3 volumes) and his history of the first IV Dalai degrees in cultural studies under his supervision.