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Use the Internet to find different ideas about when to call someone a christian. Compare the different criteria and discuss their validity.
Compare the two short films on this site, as you write down the similarities and differences.
Discuss whether they represent an emic or an etic point of view.
Emic and etic are terms used by anthropologists and by others in the social and behavioral sciences to refer to two different kinds of data concerning human behavior.
An "emic" account is a description of behavior or a belief in terms meaningful (consciously or unconsciously) to the actor; that is, an emic account comes from a person within the culture. Almost anything from within a culture can provide an emic account.
An "etic" account is a description of a behavior or belief by an observer, in terms that can be applied to other cultures; that is, an etic account attempts to be 'culturally neutral'.
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