in crosscultural situations, worldview clashes have made it difficult for new ideas to naturally emerge—or to allow the living out of the gospel in a unique cultural context. This is often a reflection of a sense of superiority in the change agent (missionary), which, in social-change innovations, affects the adoption and the diffusion rate due to the perception that adoption will alienate people from their traditional knowledge entirely.43 Tinker would assert, however, that today “an Indian pastor is more likely than a white missionary to criticize the paganism of traditional spirituality”
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