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gme-424	Stackhouse, Max L.	“All Things to All People”?: Mission, Conversion and Providence in a Global Era	2010	20	.pdf	application/pdf	12273	367	40	For the most part, most people live by a basic assent to the reigning system of social life, which anthropologists usually call a “Culture” and sociologists call “Society” – in either case, a system of interacting beliefs, structures, and habituated practices governed by an “ethos” – a dynamic cluster of interlocking principles, purposes and values that become incarnated in the institutions of the common life into which we are socialized and that basically guide existence. If this contention is valid, it will require a modification of the dominant interpretations of history and social life in contemporary thought, most of which claim that the most powerful forces in society are political, or economic, or cultural, and that these determine the nature, motivations, and history of religion and, thus, of missions.	cache/gme-424.pdf	txt/gme-424.txt