Sherwood Lingenfelter

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Sherwood Galen Lingenfelter (born November 18, 1941 in Hollidaysburg , Pennsylvania , USA ) is an American professor emeritus of anthropology and author.

Life

Lingenfelter studied at Wheaton College (Illinois) , where he graduated in 1963 with a BA in English Literature . In 1971 he received his doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh with his anthropological thesis about Yap: Political Leadership and Cultural Change in Society to Iceland for Ph.D. At the age of 25 he found the Christian faith .

From 1964 to 1966 he was director of the School of Liberal Arts of the Academic Advising Center of the University of Pittsburgh and was a visiting professor there in 1976/77. In 1966/67 he was first an instructor , between 1969 and 1974 Assistant Professor , then until 1982 Associate Professor and 1982/83 Professor of Anthropology at the SUNY College in Brookport (Illinois) . Between 1983 and 1988 he was Professor of Intercultural Studies and then until 1999 Provost and Senior Vice President of Biola University , California . From 1999 he worked at Fuller Theological Seminary : until 2002 as Dean of the School of World Mission , until 2013 as Professor of Anthropology, from 2001 to 2011 as Probst and Senior Vice President. Since his retirement in 2013 he has been a senior professor there and since 2011 at the "Alliance Theological Seminary" in Nyack , NY .

His anthropological studies took him to the Yap Islands in Micronesia for three years and to short-term research projects with SIL International in Cameroon , Suriname and Brazil , where he worked with Wycliff missionaries. For more than 30 years Lingenfelter worked as a research and training consultant in Papua New Guinea , Borneo , the Philippines , Africa “Summer Institute of Linguistics” (SIL) and Latin America .

He is a sought-after lecturer and speaker at conferences and congresses worldwide , including the Liebenzeller Mission . Since 1994 he has been a member of the Board of Directors of the "Grace Brethren International Mission" in Illinois, of which he was President between 2004 and 2007. From 1999 to 2002 he was a member of the SIL International Board of Directors.

Lingenfelter married the linguist Judith Elaine Beaumont in 1962. The couple have two children and live in Pasadena, California .

Awards

  • National Science Foundation (NSF) Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant, 1967, 1968, 1969
  • National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Pre-Doctoral Fellowship & Research Grant, 1967, 1968, 1969
  • NSF Summer Fellowship for Tri-Institutional Summer Field Training Program in Cultural Anthropology
  • State University of New York (SUNY) Research Foundation Faculty Research Fellowship and Grant-in-Aid, 1970
  • SUNY Research Foundation Faculty Research Fellowship, 1971
  • SUNY Research Foundation Grant, 1972
  • Sabbatical Leave Granted from SUNY College at Brockport for study on the ethnology of South America, 1976, 1977
  • Decision Sciences Institute (DSI) Awards-Teaching and Scholarship, SUNY Brockport, 1970, 1972, 1974, 1978, 1979
  • NSF Research Grant, 1979-1981

Publications

  • Yap, Political Leadership and Culture Change in an Island Society , University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu 1975, ISBN 978-0-82480301-8 .
  • Agents of Transformation: A Guide for Effective Cross-Cultural Ministry , Baker Academic, Grand Rapids 1996, ISBN 978-0-8010-2068-1 .
  • Transforming Culture: A Challenge for Christian Mission , Baker Academic, Grand Rapids 1998, ISBN 978-0-8010-2178-7 .
  • Leading Cross-Culturally: Covenant Relationships for Effective Christian Leadership , Baker Academic, Grand Rapids 2008, ISBN 978-0-8010-3605-7 .

as a co-author

  • with Daniel T. Hughes: Political Development in Micronesia , Ohio State University Press, Columbus 1974.
  • with Marvin K. Mayers: Ministering Cross-Culturally: An Incarnational Model for Personal Relationships , Baker Academic, Grand Rapids 1986, ISBN 978-0-8010-2647-8 .
  • with Marvin K. Mayers: Cross-cultural service: a model for a better understanding of interpersonal relationships , Johannis-Verlag , Lahr 1991, ISBN 978-3-88002-483-0 ; Verlag der Liebenzeller Mission , Bad Liebenzell 6th edition 2010, ISBN 978-3-921113-11-0 .
  • with Judith E. Lingenfelter: Teaching Cross-Culturally: An Incarnational Model for Learning and Teaching , Baker Academic, Grand Rapids 2003, ISBN 978-0-8010-2620-1 .
  • with Paul R. Gupta: Breaking Tradition to Accomplish Vision: Training Leaders for a Church-Planting Movement: A Case from India , Bmh Books, 2006, ISBN 978-0-88469305-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Story of an Anthropologist . In: Liebenzeller Mission Mission Worldwide , Edition 7/8 2016, pp. 14–15.
  2. ↑ Lingenfelter: Kurzvita , biola.edu, accessed on March 17, 2017.
  3. ↑ Lingenfelter: Kurzvita ( Memento from March 18, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), fuller.edu
  4. ↑ a b Lingenfelter: Vita , accessed on March 17, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Lingenfelter, Sherwood
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lingenfelter, Sherwood Galen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American professor emeritus of anthropology and author
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Hollidaysburg , Pennsylvania , USA