Reviews
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Wolseth, Jon. 2011. Jesus and the Gang: Youth Violence and Christianity in Urban Honduras. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press
Reviewed by Henri Gooren (Oakland University). This fine ethnography begins with a murder. “They shot him, they shot El Títere. El Títere is dead”. Children are shouting and running; soon a crowd forms near the shirtless corpse of a young man who was “barely ...
Faubion, James D. 2011. An Anthropology of Ethics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Reviewed by Anna Strhan (University of Kent). How do people engage with questions about the good and how we ought to live in everyday social encounters? What role do particular moral logics play in the constitution of human subjects, and how, when and where does the formation of ...
Luhrmann, T.M. 2012. When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God
Reviewed by Nofit Itzhak (University of California, San Diego). While conducting fieldwork for her dissertation project among contemporary witches in Britain, Tanya Luhrmann woke up one morning to the startling vision of six druids standing against the window of her London ...
Guadeloupe, Francio. 2009. Chanting Down the New Jerusalem: Calypso, Christianity, and Capitalism in the Caribbean
Reviewed by Brian Howell (Wheaton College). Beautiful islands of beaches, colorful and fascinating cultures, and delicious tropical cuisine, it is no wonder the economies of the tiny island nations of the Caribbean have become dominated by tourism in their postcolonial ...
Burdick, John. 2013. The Color of Sound: Race, Religion, and Music in Brazil
Reviewed by James S. Bielo (Miami University). Eight young men gather on a Sao Paulo rooftop – surveying the city’s sprawling jumble of ramshackle houses, the periferia – writing rhymes and composing gospel raps. A congregation is divided as they hear and see a samba band ...