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A Review Forum of Divine Currency: The Theological Power of Money in the West (Singh 2018)

Singh, Devin. 2018. Divine currency: The theological power of money in the west. Stanford: Stanford University Press. With contributions by …

July 31, 2020 Kyle Byron

Haynes, “Moving by the Spirit”

Haynes, Naomi. 2017. Moving by the Spirit: Pentecostal Social Life on the Zambian Copperbelt. Oakland: University of California Press.  Publisher’s description: This …

February 25, 2017 ndca-admin

Probasco, “Prayer, Patronage, and Personal Agency in Nicaraguan Accounts of Receiving International Aid”

Probasco, LiErin. 2016. Prayer, Patronage, and Personal Agency in Nicaraguan Accounts of Receiving International Aid. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion Doi: 10.1111/jssr.12263 …

August 13, 2016 ndca-admin

Haynes, “On the Potential and Problems of Pentecostal Exchange”

Hanyes, Naomi. 2013. “On the Potential and Problems of Pentecostal Exchange.” American Anthropologist 115(1):85-95. Abstract: In this article, I draw on …

February 25, 2013 ndca-admin

Cole, “The Love of Jesus Never Disappoints: Reconstituting Female Personhood in Urban Madagascar”

Cole, Jennifer. 2012. “The Love of Jesus Never Disappoints: Reconstituting Female Personhood in Urban Madagascar.” Journal of Religion in Africa 42(4): 384-407. …

December 14, 2012 ndca-admin

Barker, “The Enigma of Christian Conversion”

Barker, John. 2012. The Enigma of Christian Conversion: Exchange and the Emergence of New Great Men among the Maisin of …

September 22, 2012 ndca-admin

Kaell, “Of gifts and grandchildren: American Holy Land souvenirs”

Kaell, Hillary (2012) “Of gifts and grandchildren: American Holy Land souvenirs.” Journal of Material Culture. 17(2):133–151 Abstract: Despite significant scholarship in anthropology and tourism …

September 19, 2012 ndca-admin

Howell, “Short-Term Mission: An Ethnography of Christian Travel Narrative and Experience”

Howell, Brian (2012) Short-Term Mission: An Ethnography of Christian Travel Narrative and Experience. Downers Groves, Illinois: IVP Academic Press. Publisher’s …

August 14, 2012 ndca-admin

Tomlinson, “Passports to Eternity: Whales’ Teeth and Transcendence in Fijian Methodism”

Tomlinson, Matt (2012) “Passports to Eternity: Whales’ Teeth and Transcendence in Fijian Methodism,” in Lenore Manderson, Wendy Smith, & Matt Tomlinson …

February 21, 2012 ndca-admin

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Banner image photo credits:
Sacred Heart - Naomi Haynes
Man painting, Dolls, Candles, Monastery Artabyunk - Hillary Kaell
Car - James Bielo

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