Reviews
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Mayblin, Maya. 2014. Gender, Catholicism, and Morality in Brazil
Reviewed by Astrid Grue (University of Copenhagen). If, following a point recently made by Sara Ahmed, an ideological argument of contemporary Western societies appears to be that “if you are married, then we can predict that you are more likely to be happier than if you are ...
Howell, Brian (2012) Short-Term Mission: An Ethnography of Christian Travel Narrative and Experience
Reviewed by Joshua Brahinsky (University of California, Santa Cruz). While anthropology and religion have a checkered and ambivalent dynamic, relations between anthropology and missiology – Christian mission theory - are far more enmeshed and, perhaps, grating. This animates a ...
Hackworth, Jason. 2012. Faith Based: Religious Neoliberalism and the Politics of Welfare in the United States
Reviewed by Amy E. Fisher (University of Toronto). Jason Hackworth's Faith Based: Religious Neoliberalism and the Politics of Welfare in the United States seeks to unravel the “synergies and tensions” (vii) between neoliberals and evangelical conservatives who are ostensibly ...
Swartz, David R. 2012. Moral Minority: The Evangelical Left in the Age of Conservatism
Reviewed by Rebekka King (Middle Tennessee State University). David R. Swartz has invited you to party. At first glance, the party appears to be a disparate group: the well-dressed Republican senator Mark Hatfield is engaged in a deep conversation with scraggly haired Jim ...
Brown, Candy Gunther. 2012. Testing Prayer: Science and Healing
Reviewed by Anna I. Corwin (UCLA). In 2010, Candy Gunther Brown and her research team published a compelling and controversial article in Southern Medical Journal arguing that proximate intercessory prayer, performed in their study by Pentecostals in ...