Kiwi Spirituality

Viv Grigg April 2008

How Do We Define a Pakeha Spirituality

1. Generational Visions

2. Cultural Values

3. What would a Pakeha Spirituality be?

Viv Grigg April 2008

Generational Maori Visions in KiwilandFrom intertribal conflict (1790-1830)

...to Spiritual and Economic Development (1830-1860's)...to Land Confiscation, Demoralization and Survival (1860's - 1900)

...to Consolidation and Early Recovery (1900-1940s) ...to Entry into NZ Mainstream (1940-1970s)

...to Treaty Settlements and Self-Determination (1970s-2000)

+ Generational Pakeha Visions in KiwilandFrom Dispossessed Peasants

..to Rugged Migrant Landowners (1860-1900) ... to Socialist Provided Families (1900-1953) ....to International Achievers (1953- 1980)

.....to Chic Technological Hedonistic Global Urbanites (1980-2000)

+ New Migrant Visions in Auckland = A Season of New Definition of National Vision

Church and Which Kiwi Society?

An Emerging

Modern NationGlobalisationUrbanisationIndustrialisationModernisationSecularisation

A Postmodern People in a Global Village

UrbanismTechnicismPluralism/ TribalismHedonismSpiritualism

A Nation BirthedTwo peoples defining themselvesColonial DependencyRugged Survival

Internal Pilgrimage

Maori RedefinitionPakeha RedefinitionMigrant Community Expansion to Critical Mass for Identities

Global?The Millenial Kiwi

Tribal?

External Determinants

KiwiKulture And Values (Pakeha - style)

VALUES(Reality often opposite)

GOALS & ASPIRATIONS SOCIAL STRUCTURE

Harmony and Centring • Fairness• Integrity & Honesty

National: sound economy, education for all, full employment, maintain equalitarian lifestyle for the purpose of leisure & pleasure

Egalitarianism

Independence & Individualism

Male: a good "mate" (friend).Female: a nice lady i.e. friendly,

kind, gracious, moralising force, liberated success.

Nuclear Family(independent and self-

sufficient)

Egalitarianism Success: Is earned by hard work not by fate or chance

Inclusiveness: one of the boys; play with team

Hard Work An Economic Culture eternal mortgage

Leadership is from the centre

Friendship (Mateship) Status Control Mechanisms

Phlegmatic Cultural Temperament

AchievementThe Kiwi Way of Life

Segmentation

Ingenuity & pragmatism Possessions Travel / Holidays

Religious beliefs: Practical atheism

Designer -styled paganism

Hedonism as youth religion

Zealous pluralism

Three Polar Types of Society

See notes on Three Polar types of society, comparing tribal, peasant and urban societies in other handout

Modern Worldview Post-Modern Worldview

The "Modern Project" The "Pluralist Reality"Machine System

Parts to the whole Interrelated

Law and order Order and chaos

Closed Open

Construction Deconstruction

Essential principles Contextual "truths"

Stability Flux

Order Change

Grand Narrative Multiple Story lines

Truth Relativity

Inner Essence Surface and image

Historical Context Endless succession of "nows"

Purpose of the whole Participation in the particular

Centring Dispersal

Substance Symbols

Anti-spiritual Spirituality

Natural Supernatural

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King & Kingdom as Integrator of Universe Coherence of Story Future Hope Community

Alternative Kingdom Order Defense of marginalised Affirmation of cultures Creation of public space for pluralism

Redefinition of theAnthropological

DignityWorthMeaningHopeCommunity

Personhood Infusing MatterMoral Care of the Environment

Critique of Consumer SocietyPersonhood as Source of EnergyExpansive, Creativity of Universe

Transformational Conversation: Reintegration Beyond Postmodernism

What is the end goal of revival?

The Vacuum of Postmodernism

Kingdom ReintegrationBeyond Postmodernism

Loss of:authorityintegration

meaning

New World Order Global Economic Oppression Religious-political conglomerate Destruction of local community Retribalization

Death of Rationalist MaterialismChaos Theory/ UncertaintyExpansive Exploitation of ResourcesGreed-based Competitive EconomicsTechnological Innovation

Evolutionary Determinism

Devaluation of HumannessDNA defined destinycyborg futureGlobal McDonaldization

Bibliography

Grigg, Viv The Spirit of Christ and the Post-modern City:

Transformative Revival Among Auckland’s Evangelicals and Pentecostals PhD Thesis, Auckland University

Neil Darragh, “ A Pakeha Christian Spirituality,” in Counselling

Issues, ed. Philip Culbertson (Auckland: Accent Publications, 1997).

At Home in the Earth: Seeking an Earth-Centred Spirituality (Auckland: Accent Publications, 2000).

Helen Bergin and Susan Smith, eds., Spirituality in Aotearoa New Zealand: Catholic Voices

(Auckland: Accent Publications, 2002).