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Joel Robbins

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 …

March 6, 2015 ndca-admin

Robbins, “How Do Religions End?”

Robbins, Joel.  2014.  How Do Religions End?: Theorizing Religious Traditions from the Point of View of How They Disappear.  Cambridge …

November 24, 2014 ndca-admin

Robbins, “The Anthropology of Christianity: Unity, Diversity, New Directions”

Robbins, Joel. 2014. The Anthropology of Christianity: Unity, Diversity, New Directions. Current Anthropology DOI: 10.1086/678289 Abstract: This article reviews the development of the anthropology …

November 23, 2014 ndca-admin

Robbins, Schieffelin, and Vilaça, “Evangelical Conversion and the Transformation of the Self in Amazonia and Melanesia”

Robbins, Joel, Bambi B, Schieffelin, and Aparecida Vilaça. 2014. Evangelical Conversion and the Transformation of the Self in Amazonia and …

July 23, 2014 ndca-admin

Meneses et. al., “Engaging the Religiously Committed Other: Anthropologists and Theologians in Dialogue”

Meneses, Eloise, Lindy Backues, David Bronkema, Eric Flett, and Benjamin L. Hartley. 2014. Engaging the Religiously Committed Other: Anthropologists and Theologians …

January 23, 2014 ndca-admin

Robbins, “Afterword: Let’s keep it awkward: Anthropology, theology, and otherness”

Robbins, Joel. 2013. Afterword: Let’s keep it awkward: Anthropology, theology, and otherness. The Australian Journal of Anthropology 24(3):329-337. Excerpt: This collection of articles …

December 15, 2013 ndca-admin

Robbins, “Beyond the suffering subject”

Robbins, Joel. 2013. Beyond the suffering subject: toward an anthropology of the good. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 19(3): …

August 12, 2013 ndca-admin

Gifford, Paul. 2004. Ghana’s New Christianity: Pentecostalism in a Globalizing African Economy

Reviewed by Joel Robbins (Department of Anthropology, University of California, San Diego). Paul Gifford is one of the most knowledgeable and prolific scholars of Christianity in sub-Saharan Africa.  He has written both surveys on general topics, such as the public role of Christian churches in Africa, and monographs focused on specific countries

May 13, 2013 ndca-admin

Jenkins, “The Anthropology of Christianity: Situation and Critique”

  Jenkins, Timothy. 2012. The Anthropology of Christianity: Situation and Critique. Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology 77(4):459-476. Abstract This article seeks to …

December 11, 2012 ndca-admin

Robbins, “Why is There No Political Theology among the Urapmin”

Robbins, Joel. 2012. Why is There No Political Theology among the Urapmin?: On Diarchy, Sects as Big as Society, and …

December 3, 2012 ndca-admin

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Sacred Heart - Naomi Haynes
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