Talk:Intercultural studies

Notes on initial draft

I've gone ahead and drafted this, am hoping to make some additional revisions to make it stronger but thought it best to get it out there to get the ball rolling. This page previously redirected to interculturalism, but that article doesn't really address the way this specific term is used by seminaries. So I've put it here now, if any conflict with usage outside of theology comes up it might be able to be moved to Intercultural Studies (Theological Discipline) or Intercultural Theology or something like that. austiñobobbiño (talk) 19:20, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. You can locate your hook here. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: rejected, closed by Launchballer talk 22:32, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

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• ... that many seminaries have replaced the term missiology with intercultural studies to reflect changing approaches to global Christianity?

• Source: Kollman, Paul (19 December 2022). "Defining Mission Studies for the Third Millennium of Christianity". In Kirsteen Kim; Alison Fitchett-Climenhaga (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Mission Studies. Oxford Handbooks. Oxford University Press.

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Created by Austiñobobbiño (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

austiñobobbiño (talk) 15:43, 26 September 2025 (UTC).

• The major obstacle to this article passing is that the bulk of the underlying text (virtually all of this edit, which was the first in building this out from a redirect) appears to be generated by an LLM. For this alone the article fails the requirement to be presentable. As for sourcing, there are two scholarly articles on this subject and the rest of the sources are webpages promoting intercultural studies degrees at academic institutions. I don't consider those especially good sources for the interpretive claims they are being used to make. The hook is not particularly interesting, but might be made so if it were to elucidate one or more of the "changing approaches" driving the shift away from "missiology" as a term, but as it stands it's vague. However, considering that this article needs to be rewritten and thoroughly reviewed to ensure every claim generated by an LLM is appropriately sourced, I consider that an insurmountable obstacle to the approval of this nom within the few weeks remaining until WP:DYKTIMEOUT and for that reason I am marking this for closure. Dclemens1971 (talk) 18:08, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

Intention to address issues

A few notes. First, I concede that @Dclemens1971 raises a valid point; When I first drafted this, I drafted an initial body of the article in a word processing file on my computer, which I then ran through a LLM to help me with the formatting and round it out, and while I meant well, I now see how my usage was problematic as per WP:LLM. My initial thought was to do that to get the ball rolling and then further revise and source the article, which I had started to do - part of my thought in making the DYK nomination was that it might draw some attention that might encourage some further collaboration to improve it; in retrospect, I probably should have held off until it was further along, and should have kept the text itself my own drafting rather than the more embellished version.

For now, I'll move this to a draft and make a first pass at cutting it down to the topics covered by the current sources, then build it out from there.

Also, after working with the literature on the topic a little more, I'm increasingly inclined to move this over to the title "Intercultural Theology", which is consistent with some of the literature I've been working with (for instance, the Ustorf article describes "intercultural studies" and "intercultural theology" as exchangable), which might address the issues related to how the "intercultural studies" terminology is similar to other terms. austiñobobbiño (talk) 22:39, 27 October 2025 (UTC)