Reinhardt, Bruno. 2016. ‘Don’t make it a doctrine’: Material religion, transcendence, critique. Anthropological Theory. doi:10.1177/1463499615625012 [pre-publication release] Abstract: Once a matter of beliefs, symbols, …
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Werbner, “Political prayer and the dignity of labour”
Werbner, Pnina. 2016. Political prayer and the dignity of labour: Botswana’s workers’ movement. Anthropology Today 32(1): 14–18. Abstract: The article draws …
Webster, “Objects of Transcendence”
Webster, Joseph. “Objects of Transcendence: Scots Protestantism and an Anthropology of Things.” In Material Religion in Modern Britain. T. W. …
Sanders, Talena. 2013. Liahona
Reviewed by Jon Bialecki (University of Edinburgh). Liahona is not an ethnographic film. It is not even a documentary, or, at least, a documentary of the standard type. Consisting of images shot on scratchy 16 millimeter film using a hand camera, mixed with a wealth of found footage (much of it originally filmed by the Church of the Latter Day Saints
Marshall, “Destroying arguments and captivating thoughts”
Marshall, Ruth. 2016. Destroying arguments and captivating thoughts: Spiritual warfare prayer as global praxis. Journal of Religious and Political Practice. …
McAlister, “The militarization of prayer in America”
McAlister, Elizabeth. 2016. The militarization of prayer in America: white and Native American spiritual warfare. Journal of Religious and Political …
Marina, “Becoming a God Hunter”
Marina, Peter. J. 2015. Becoming a God hunter towards conversion in a Brooklyn tongue-speaking church. Social Compass. Early online publication. …
Thornton, “Negotiating Respect”
Thornton, Brendan Jamal. 2016. Negotiating respect: pentecostalism, masculinity, and the politics of spiritual authority in the Dominican Republic. [Place of publication not …
Becker, Adam. 2015. Revival and Awakening: American Evangelical Missionaries in Iran and the Origins of Assyrian Nationalism
Reviewed by Secil Dagtas (University of Waterloo). What is the relationship between the modern categories of “religion” and “nation”? The general tendency in popular and academic works has been to approach this relationship as one of tension, contradiction, or replacement.
Bowler, Kate. 2013. Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel.
Reviewed by Martin Lindhardt (University of Southern Denmark). Kate Bowler’s book is an important and highly readable contribution to our understanding of the history and significance of the so-called prosperity gospel