In his study of Thai Christians’ understanding of God, Taylor concurred with the findings of this study: “The Thai have a tradition of learning from people rather than from books.”512 In the 2013 Participate study of “people’s experiences of living in poverty,” the researchers found that relationship was a key to sustainable development.513 Similarly, Bigelow explained in her study with a Somali diaspora group, “Orality does not just denote communicating through listening, speaking, orating, and reading poetry; in the deepest sense, it refers to a way of life entirely organically fashioned on
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