Reviews
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Most recent additions
Cahn, Peter S. 2011. Direct Sales and Direct Faith in Latin America
Reviewed by Rebecca Bartel (University of Toronto). In the first pages of this ethnography of direct faith and direct sales, the reader becomes intimately acquainted with Luisa and her family, perhaps one of the most remarkable elements of Cahn’s ...
Kidula, Jean Ngoya. 2013. Music in Kenyan Christianity: Logooli Religious Song
Reviewed by Katrien Pype (Leuven University, University of Birmingham). Christian music makes up one of the most flourishing music scenes on the African continent, populated by its own celebrities, aesthetics and marketing styles. A whole industry has now emerged around “the ...
Nongbri, Brent. 2013. Before Religion: A History of a Modern Concept
Reviewed by Jon Bialecki (University of Edinburgh). On its face, Brent Nongbri’s book, Before Religion, is seemingly not about Christianity, but about religion more generally - or more specifically, about the category of religion more generally. Nongbri’s argument is that ...
Webster, Joseph. 2013. The Anthropology of Protestantism: Faith and Crisis among Scottish Fishermen
Reviewed by Matt Tomlinson (Australian National University). This book is an innovative attempt to understand the relationship between language and materiality in terms of the Protestant doctrine of consubstantiation, “that view of the Christian Eucharist that ...
A Review Forum of Ritual Textuality: Pattern and Motion in Performance (Tomlinson 2014)
with contributions by: Omri Elisha Courtney Handman Rodolfo Maggio Girish Daswani Matt Tomlinson