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Willenbrink, “The Act of Being Saved”

Willenbrink, Hank.  2014.  The Act of Being Saved: Hell House and the Salvific Performative.  Theatre Journal 66(1): 73-92. Excerpt: …Can …

April 15, 2014 ndca-admin

Blanes, A Prophetic Trajectory

Blanes, Ruy Llera. 2014. A Prophetic Trajectory: Ideologies of Place, Time, and Belonging in an Angolan Religious Movement. New York: Berghahn.  …

April 14, 2014 ndca-admin

van Wyk, “The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in South Africa”

van Wyk, Ilana.  2014. The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in South Africa: A Church of Strangers.  Cambridge: …

April 12, 2014 ndca-admin

Behera, “Mizo Beliefs and the Christian Gospel”

Behera, Marina Ngursangzeli.  2014.  Mizo Beliefs and the Christian Gospel: Their Interaction with Reference to the Concepts of Health and …

April 10, 2014 ndca-admin

Park, Julie J. 2013. When Diversity Drops: Race, Religion, and Affirmative Action in Higher Education

Reviewed by Jerry Park (Baylor University). In 1998, the state of California’s Proposition 209 struck down affirmative action as a policy to effect greater inclusion of racial minorities in higher education. At a time when non-white racial minorities were growing, particularly among younger cohorts

April 8, 2014 ndca-admin

Juzwik, “American Evangelical Biblicism”

Juzwik, Mary M. 2014. American Evangelical Biblicism as Literate Practice: A Critical Review. Reading Research Quarterly. Early online publication. Abstract: …

April 4, 2014 ndca-admin

Cahn, Peter S. 2011. Direct Sales and Direct Faith in Latin America

Reviewed by Rebecca Bartel (University of Toronto). In the first pages of this ethnography of direct faith and direct sales, the reader becomes intimately acquainted with Luisa and her family, perhaps one of the most remarkable elements of Cahn’s study

April 1, 2014 ndca-admin

Chenoweth, “Practicing and Preaching Quakerism”

Chenoweth, John M. 2014. Practicing and Preaching Quakerism: Creating a Religion of Peace on a Slavery-era Plantation. American Anthropologist 116()1: 94-109.  Abstract: A …

March 28, 2014 ndca-admin

Bialecki, “Does God Exist in Methodological Atheism?”

Bialecki, Jon. 2014.  Does God Exist in Methodological Atheism? On Tanya Lurhmann’s When God Talks Back and Bruno Latour. Anthropology of Consciousness 25(1):32-52. …

March 28, 2014 ndca-admin

Marti and Ganiel, “The Deconstructed Church”

Marti, Gerardo and Gladys Ganiel.  2014.  The Deconstructed Church: Understanding Emerging Christianity.  Oxford: Oxford University Press. Publisher’s Description: The Emerging …

March 27, 2014 ndca-admin

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