Reviews
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A Review Forum of Divine Currency: The Theological Power of Money in the West (Singh 2018)
Singh, Devin. 2018. Divine currency: The theological power of money in the west. Stanford: Stanford University Press. With contributions by …
Barber, Daniel Colucciello. 2011. On Diaspora: Christianity, Religion, and Secularity.
Reviewed by Jon Bialecki (University of California, San Diego/University of Edinburgh). When AnthroCyBib started out, its mission was to index and disseminate academic materials “contributing to, or in dialogue with” the Anthropology of Christianity. In short, it was to be ...
Ault, James. 2013. African Christianity Rising: Christianity’s Explosive Growth in Africa.
By Adriaan van Klinken (University of Leeds). Those who are teaching world Christianities at European institutions may recognize how difficult it can be to give students, grown up in a highly secularized context, a sense of the significance and vibrancy of Christianity in other ...
Dugan, Katherine. 2019. Millennial Missionaries: How a Group of Young Catholics is Trying to Make Catholicism Cool
Reviewed by Annie Blazer (College of William and Mary). Katherine Dugan provides a window onto the lives of a small group of devout Catholic millennials. These young Catholics enthusiastically share their vision of a personally rewarding religious life that need ...
Johnson, Jessica. 2018. Biblical Porn: Affect, Labor, and Pastor Mark Driscoll’s Evangelical Empire.
Reviewed by Brendan Jamal Thornton (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill). Depending on what you are looking for, the title of Jessica Johnson’s 2018 volume from Duke University Press may be a bit misleading: you need not be home alone or draw the curtains closed in order ...