The church and cultures : an applied anthropology for the religious worker / Louis J. Luzbetak.

A practical book for the modern religious worker who is concerned with the proper relationship between the ways of the Church and of man. It introduces the non-professional to the wealth of scientific knowledge now available and useful for effective action across cultures and subcultures--at home or abroad. Maintains that, for the apostle of today to rely on anything less than a science of man would be as foolish as to rely on less than a science of medicine. The author's basic assumption is that, no matter what knowledge or skill the Church may wish to apply in carrying out her social or religious mission, she will have to apply that knowledge and skill with the values and ways of the particular society always in view.

Includes bibliographies.

The Church and cultures : new perspectives in missiological anthropology / Louis J. Lezbetak, S.V.D.