Reviewed by Jon Bialecki (University of Edinburgh). On its face, Brent Nongbri’s book, Before Religion, is seemingly not about Christianity, but about religion more generally – or more specifically, about the category of religion more generally. Nongbri’s argument is that religion is not a human universal, but rather construction that has both a history and a genealogy
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Grätz, “Christian religious radio production”
Grätz, Tilo. 2014. Christian religious radio production in Benin: The Case of Radio Maranatha. Social Compass 61(10: 57-66. Abstract: The …
Miller, “The Age of Evangelicalism”
Miller, Steven P. 2014. The Age of Evangelicalism: America’s Born-Again Years. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Publisher’s Description: For years, evangelicalism …
Friedner, “The Church of Deaf Sociality”
Friedner, Michele. 2014. The Church of Deaf Sociality: Deaf Churchgoing Practices and “Sign Bread and Butter” in Bangalore, India. Anthropology & Education …
Tomlinson, “Bringing Kierkegaard into anthropology”
Tomlinson, Matt. 2014. Bringing Kierkegaard into anthropology: repetition, absurdity, and curses in Fiji. American Ethnologist 41(1): 163-175. Abstract: The Danish …
Krawchuk and Bremer (eds), “Eastern Orthodox Encounters”
Krawchuk, Andrii, and Thomas Bremer, eds. 2014. Eastern Orthodox Encounters of Identity and Otherness: Values, Self-Reflection, Dialogue. New York: Palgrave …
Faubion, “The subject that is not one: On the ethics of mysticism”
Faubion, James. 2013. The subject that is not one: On the ethics of mysticism. Anthropological Theory 13(4): 287–307. Abstract: Any anthropological approach to …
Strhan, “Christianity and the City”
Strhan, Anna. 2014 Christianity and the City: Simmel, Space, and Urban Subjectivities. Religion and Society: Advances in Research. 4(1): 125-149. Abstract: This article …
Saint-Blancet and Cancellieri, “From invisibility to visibility?”
Saint-Blancet, Chantal and Adriano Cancellieri. 2014. “From invisibility to visibility?: The appropriation of public space through a religious ritual: the …
Webster, Joseph. 2013. The Anthropology of Protestantism: Faith and Crisis among Scottish Fishermen
Reviewed by Matt Tomlinson (Australian National University). This book is an innovative attempt to understand the relationship between language and materiality in terms of the Protestant doctrine of consubstantiation, “that view of the Christian Eucharist that attempts