Reviews
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Blanton, Anderson. 2015. Hittin’ the Prayer Bones: Materiality of Spirit in the Pentecostal South
Reviewed by James S. Bielo (Miami University). Come and listen in to the radio station, Where the mighty hosts of heaven sing, Turn your radio on, turn your radio on, Turn your radio on, turn your radio on...
So sings John Hartford on his 1971 cover of the 1938 southern ...
Wariboko, Nimi. 2014. Nigerian Pentecostalism
Reviewed by Jörg Haustein (SOAS, University of London). Wariboko's book is an important contribution to the by now substantial array of studies on Nigerian Pentecostalism, and yet it is one of a kind. Instead of providing another historical, political, or socio-economic ...
DeRogatis, Amy. 2014. Saving Sex: Sexuality and Salvation in American Evangelicalism
Review by Sophie Bjork-James (Vanderbilt University). In 2012, Pastor Ed Young and his wife moved a bed onto the roof of their Texas megachurch to lead a “bed-in” lauding the importance of marital sexual intimacy. Young was celebrating the recent publication of his book, ...
Larsen, Timothy. 2014. The Slain God: Anthropologists and the Christian Faith
Reviewed by T.M. Luhrmann (Stanford University). Do you need to be a person of faith to understand faith? This was the question at the center of the “rationality debate” that swirled around Cambridge when I arrived there as a student now alas some years ...
Scherz, China. 2014. Having People, Having Heart: Charity, Sustainable Development, and Problems of Dependence in Central Uganda
Reviewed by Andrea Grant (University of Cambridge). During my fieldwork in Rwanda, I was asked to write a “needs assessment” report for a centre for disabled youth outside of Kigali run by Catholic nuns. I was asked by a friend, a prosperous Rwandan woman in her 40s, who was ...