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Joel Robbins

Robbins, “Theology and the Anthropology of Christian Life”

Robbins, Joel. 2020. Theology and the Anthropology of Christian Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press Anthropological theory can radically transform our …

November 26, 2020 Leanne Williams Green

Robbins, “Keeping God’s Distance”

Robbins, Joel. 2017. Keeping God’s Distance: Sacrifice, possession, and the problem of religious mediation. American Ethnologist 44(3): 464-475. Abstract: Much contemporary work in …

August 18, 2017 ndca-admin

Tomlinson, “Christian Difference”

Tomlinson, Matt. 2017. “Christian Difference: A review essay.” Comparative Studies in Society and History. 59(3):743-753. Abstract: The discipline called the “anthropology of Christianity” …

June 14, 2017 ndca-admin

Robbins, “Religious Pluralism and Values Pluralism”

Robbins, Joel. 2015 [2014]. Religious Pluralism and Values Pluralism: Ritual and the Management of Intercultural Diversity. Debates do NER 2(26): …

November 11, 2015 ndca-admin

Robbins, “Engaged Disbelief: Communities of Detachment in Christianity and in the Anthropology of Christianity”

Robbins, Joel. 2015. Engaged Disbelief: Communities of Detachment in Christianity and in the Anthropology of Christianity. In Thomas Yarrow; Matei Candea; Catherine …

November 5, 2015 ndca-admin

Macdonald, “‘Lucifer is Behind Me'”

Macdonald, Fraser.  2015. ‘Lucifer Is Behind Me’: The Diabolisation of Oksapmin Witchcraft as Negative Cosmological Integration.  The Asia Pacific Journal …

October 13, 2015 ndca-admin

Lybarger, “How Far is too Far?”

Lybarger, Loren D.  2015. How Far is too Far? Defining Self and Other in Religious Studies and Christian Missiology.  Journal …

September 8, 2015 ndca-admin

Robbins, “Afterword”

Robbins, Joel. 2015. “Afterword: The Anthropology of Global Pentecostalism and Evangelicalism.” In The Anthropology of Global Pentecostalism and Evangelicalism. Simon …

September 3, 2015 ndca-admin

Robbins, “Ritual, value, and example”

Robbins, Joel. 2015. Ritual, value, and example: on the perfection of cultural representations. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 21(s1):18-29. …

May 30, 2015 ndca-admin

Occasional Paper: Bialecki, “The Judgment of God and the Non-elephantine Zoo”

The Judgment of God and the Non-elephantine Zoo: Christian Dividualism, Individualism, and Ethical Freedom After the Mosko-Robbins Debate Jon Bialecki …

March 17, 2015 ndca-admin

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