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Father John Mansford Prior, SVD, is a lecturer at St. Paul's Institute of Philosophy, Ledalero, Flores Island, Indonesia, having worked in eastern Indonesia since 1973. Since 1972 he has been an ordained member of the Society of the Divine Word, a Roman Catholic mission society. Prior is also an associate lecturer in the Yarra Theological Union and has served on the advisory board of the Intercultural Bible Collective, Vrieje Universiteit, Amsterdam, since 2008. He was editor of Jurnal Ledalero: Wacana Iman dan Kebudayaan from 2008 to 2017 and consultor to the Pontifical Council for Culture from 1994 to 2009. Prior earned his Ph.D. in intercultural theology at the University of Birmingham (United Kingdom).

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