Reviewed by John Durham Peters and Gavin Feller (University of Iowa). One of the most exciting things about the anthropology of Christianity is the way it uses the minutiae of practices in out of the way cultures to cast light on ancient and deep philosophical and religious questions
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Sanders, Talena. 2013. Liahona
Reviewed by Jon Bialecki (University of Edinburgh). Liahona is not an ethnographic film. It is not even a documentary, or, at least, a documentary of the standard type. Consisting of images shot on scratchy 16 millimeter film using a hand camera, mixed with a wealth of found footage (much of it originally filmed by the Church of the Latter Day Saints
Meyer, “Sensational Movies”
Meyer, Birgit. 2015. Sensational movies: video, vision, and Christianity in Ghana. Oakland, California : University of California Press. Publisher’s Description: Tracing …
Hackett and Soares (eds), “New Media and Religious Transformations in Africa”
Hackett, Rosalind I. J. and Benjamin F. Soares. 2014. New Media and Religious Transformations in Africa. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. …
Merz, “A Religion of Film Experiencing Christianity and Videos Beyond Semiotics in Rural Benin”
Merz, Johannes. 2014. “A Religion of Film Experiencing Christianity and Videos Beyond Semiotics in Rural Benin.” PdD diss,. Excerpt: In …
Film, “God Loves Uganda”
Williams, Roger Ross. 2013. God Loves Uganda. 83 min. Filmaker’s Description: The feature-length documentary God Loves Uganda is a powerful exploration …
Film, “Enlarging the Kingdom”
Butticci, Annalisa and Andrew Esiebo. 2013. Enlarging the Kingdom: African Pentecostals in Italy. 35 min. Filmmaker’s Description: Enlarging the Kingdom …