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Shelley Gay Ashdown, D.Miss.

Adjunct in Applied Linguistics
E-mail: shelley_ashdown@gial.edu

Shelley Ashdown

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Biola University

2001, Doctor of Missiology
Dissertation: The Foundational Nature of Self in Ndorobo World View

Assemblies of God Theological Seminary

1980, M.A. in Cross-Cultural Communications

Southern California College

1978, B.A. in Religion and Psychology

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Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics, Dallas, TX
2004 - Present

Adjunct Professor of Applied Linguistics
AL5314 Culture, Language and Mind
AL5372 Social and Political Organization
AL5374 Christianity Across Cultures
LD5373 Religion and Worldview

Nairobi Evangelical Graduate School of Theology, Nairobi, Kenya
2001-2004

Lecturer:
Sociolinguistics, Bible Use in African Contexts, Principles of Teaching,
Sociology of Education, Music I & II.

Oregon SIL, Northwest Christian College, Eugene, Oregon
2001

Associate Professor
Cultural Anthropology and Ethnographic Research Methods.

Payap University, Chiang Mai, Thailand
1992-1994

Associate Professor
Anthropological Linguistics, The Bible as Literature.

SIL International, Dallas, TX
1994 - Present

SIL Anthropology Consultant

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2008. World View Methodological Questions for Comparative Religion. Presented at the 2nd International Online Conference on Religious Studies: “Comparative Religion, From Subject to Problem,” sponsored by the Moscow Society for the Study of Religions, October 2008. Paper posted at: http://www.e-religions.net/page.php?id=10&comments=1
2008. The Supernatural Category of the Non-physical Self in Ndorobo World View. In VIVA Africa 2008: International Conference on African Studies. The University of West Bohemia. Pilsen, Czech Republic.
2007. Investigating World View Through Narrative Analysis. GIAL Electronic Notes Series 1(2), <http://www.gial.edu/GIALens/issues.htm>
2002. African Ethnomusic: A Collection of Tribal Sounds. Nairobi, Kenya: NEGST.
1998. Once Upon a Time: Ndorobo Short Stories. Nairobi, Kenya: BTL publication.
1994. Kinship Analysis of the Western Red Karen. Occasional Papers. Payap University, Chiang Mai, Thailand: Payap University Press.

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2008.The Ceremony of Eldership Among the Ndorobo of Kenya: Notions of Obligation and Time Continuity. Presented at 12th Annual Conference on Holidays, Ritual, Festival, Celebration and Public Display, Bowling Green State University, Ohio, September 27.
2008. Consideration of Converging World Views: Christianity & African Traditional Religion Among U.S. Immigrants. Presented at the Conference on Christianity, Culture, and Diversity in America: Conversations about Diversity-A Kingdom Calling, hosted by Huntington University, Indiana, Nov. 14.

Professional Societies top

 
  • Association of Teacher Educators
  • American Society of Missiology
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