"A Michael Glazier book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cultures as anthropologists see them : an overview -- Cultures as webs of symbols and myths -- Cultures as "not dirt," "pure," and power reservoirs -- Cultures as stigmatizing patterns of social exclusion -- Cultures as narratives negotiating identities -- Cultures as processes of ritualizing life -- Cultures as multicultural processes -- Cultures as patterns of religious symbols -- Culture(s) in ecclesial documents and theologians -- Jesus Christ, social dramas, and inculturation : lessons -- Cultures as challenges to inculturation.