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Gifford, Paul. 2004. Ghana’s New Christianity: Pentecostalism in a Globalizing African Economy

Reviewed by Joel Robbins (Department of Anthropology, University of California, San Diego). Paul Gifford is one of the most knowledgeable and prolific scholars of Christianity in sub-Saharan Africa.  He has written both surveys on general topics, such as the public role of ...

Appadurai, Arjun. 2013. The Future as Cultural Fact: Essays on the Global Condition

Reviewed by Naomi Haynes (University of Edinburgh). Reviewed by Naomi Haynes (University of Edinburgh) As part of the ongoing expansion of AnthroCyBib, we aim to engage work that is not self-consciously focused on the anthropology of Christianity.  It goes without saying that ...

Cao, Nanlai. 2011. Constructing China’s Jerusalem: Christians, Power, and Place in Contemporary Wenzhou.

Reviewed by Steve Hu (University of California, Santa Barbara). The explosive growth of global Christianity in the last century is nowhere more evident than in China where approximately 67 million Christians, roughly 5 percent of the total Chinese population, claim affiliation ...

Mosse, David. 2012. The Saint in the Banyan Tree: Christianity and Caste Society in India.

Reviewed by Waqas Butt (University of California, San Diego). In The Saint in the Banyan Tree: Christianity and Caste Society in India, David Mosse traces Christianity’s complex interactions with caste society in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu over the course of 400 ...
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