Projects / Programmes
Contemporary (Slovenian) missionary as an emigrant
| Code |
Science |
Field |
Subfield |
| 6.03.02 |
Humanities |
Anthropology |
Social and cultural anthropology |
| Code |
Science |
Field |
| S220 |
Social sciences |
Cultural anthropology, ethnology |
missionary, emigration, aculturation
Researchers (1)
| no. |
Code |
Name and surname |
Research area |
Role |
Period |
No. of publicationsNo. of publications |
| 1. |
14616 |
PhD Zvone Žigon |
Social sciences |
Head |
2002 - 2004 |
242 |
Organisations (1)
Abstract
First and most famous Slovenian emigrants were missionaries and even today there are more than one hundred Slovenian missionaries spread around the world. Because of their specific missionary role, they were always known mostly for their aculturation role, as transmitters of cultural paradigms from their developed countries to underdeveloped and non-christian ones. The role of a missionary as an emigrant, an individual, who is by his (her) arrival to a new society exposed to the same cultural shock, is less known. Especially in the new age, modern missionary cannot be successful in this mission, if he (she) is not prepared to empathize, accomodate and partially adaptize to a new culture - not only in sense of life habits, but also in sense of finding ways to reproaching of his (her) religion and culture to the surrounding one and even learning from it. The project is going to be run in three phases: review of the literature and researching on other sources, interviewing (in Slovenia) and other forms of observing missionary's work on the field of their work, analysis and synthesis of results. Project's main aim is to observe and write about described specific situation of missionaries, as modern social and cultural anthropology knows no researches of this category of migrants.
