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Richman, ‘Machine Gun Prayer’

Richman, Naomi. 2020. ‘Machine gun prayer: the politics of embodied desire in Pentecostal worship.’ Journal of Contemporary Religion 35(3): 469-483. …

January 4, 2021 Leanne Williams Green

Arrington, “Songs of the Lisu Hills”

Arrington, Aminta. 2020. Songs of the Lisu Hills: Practicing Christianity in Southwest China. University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press.  …

February 5, 2020 ndca-admin

Schuff, “Dancing Faith”

Schuff, Hildegunn Marie Tønnessen. 2019. “Dancing Faith: Contemporary Christian Dance in Norway.” Journal of Contemporary Religion 34(3): 529-549. Abstract: Although dance is …

January 9, 2020 ndca-admin

Barnes, “Ontological Implications of Spirit Encounters”

Barnes, Jamie. 2019. “The Ontological Implications of Spirit Encounters” Social Analysis 63(3): 24-46.  This article offers a reflexive and phenomenological response …

December 11, 2019 ndca-admin

Bjork-James, “Training the Porous Body”

Bjork-James, Sophie. 2018. “Training the Porous Body: Evangelicals and the Ex-Gay Movement.” American Anthropologist. 120(4): 647-658 In this article, I examine …

November 22, 2018 ndca-admin

Elisha, “Dancing the Word”

Elisha, Omri. 2018. “Dancing the Word: Techniques of embodied authority among Christian praise dancers in New York City.” American Ethnologist. 45(3): 380-391.  …

August 27, 2018 ndca-admin

Bruner, Jason. 2017. Living Salvation in the East African Revival in Uganda

Reviewed by Emma Wild-Wood (University of Edinburgh). Since its beginnings in the 1930s the East African Revival has had a lasting influence on the religious culture of the region. It began in Uganda and Rwanda as a lively, internal critique to the orderly and hierarchical Anglican Church of Uganda

January 2, 2018 ndca-admin

Barnes, “Speaking Body”

Barnes, Jamie. 2016. The Speaking Body: metaphor and the expression of extraordinary experience. Temenos 52(2): 261-287.  Abstract: This article explores the relationship between …

February 22, 2017 ndca-admin

Dein, “The Experience of Healing and the Healing of Experience in the Pentecostal Movement”

Dein, Simon. 2017. The Experience of Healing and the Healing of Experience in the Pentecostal Movement. In Helene Basu and …

February 14, 2017 ndca-admin

Barnes, “‘Stories, Senses and the Charismatic Relation’: A Reflexive Exploration of Christian Experience”

Barnes, Jamie Wallis. 2015. ‘Stories, Senses and the Charismatic Relation’: A Reflexive Exploration of Christian Experience. PhD diss., University of …

February 4, 2016 ndca-admin

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