Anthropologist Angie Heo’s first book, The Political Lives of Saints: Christian-Muslim Mediation in Egypt (2018), examines saintly intercession to explore …
Evangelical protestantism
Boyd, Lydia. 2015. Preaching prevention: born-again Christianity and the moral politics of AIDS in Uganda
Reviewed by Anna Eisenstein (University of Virginia). Lydia Boyd’s Preaching Prevention charts two moments in Uganda’s recent history: the roll-out of the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), and Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill.
Harr, “Moving Words: Christian Language and the Modern World”
Harr, Adam. 2015. “Moving Words: Christian Language and the Modern World.” Reviews in Anthropology 44(3):161-177. Abstract: Within the anthropology of Christianity, much …
Strhan, “Aliens & Strangers”
Strhan, Anna. 2015. Aliens & Strangers? The Struggle for Coherence in the Everyday Lives of Evangelicals. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Publisher’s …
Occasional Paper: Howell, “19 and Counting: Religion, Gender, and the Hermeneutics of Agency”
19 and Counting: Religion, Gender, and the Hermeneutics of Agency in Liberal America Brian Howell (Wheaton College) Editorial Note – This article …
Occasional Paper: Mikeshin, “Russian Evangelicalism Glocalized”
Russian Evangelicalism Glocalized Igor Mikeshin (University of Helsinki) This paper echoes the idea of glocalization of Evangelical Christianity, suggested by …
Brenneman, “Wrestling the Devil”
Brenneman, Robert. 2015. Wrestling the Devil: Conversion and Exit from Central American Gangs. Latin American Research Review 49(S): 112-128. Abstract: …
Choi-Fitzpatrick, “To seek and save the lost: human trafficking and salvation schemas among American evangelicals”
Choi-Fitzpatrick, Austin. 2014. To seek and save the lost: human trafficking and salvation schemas among American evangelicals. European Journal of Cultural …
Kaell, “Born-again seeking: explaining the gentile majority in messianic Judaism”
Kaell, Hillary. 2014. “Born-again seeking: explaining the gentile majority in messianic Judaism.” Religion DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2014.949899 [Digital Pre-Publication] Abstract: Messianic Judaism …
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 attempts