Reviewed by Brendan Jamal Thornton (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill). Depending on what you are looking for, the title of Jessica Johnson’s 2018 volume from Duke University Press may be a bit misleading: you need not be home alone or draw the curtains closed in order to crack the spine of this thoughtful text which is based on a decade of comprehensive ethnographic research
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Bielo, “Where Prayers May Be Whispered”
Bielo, James S. (2019) ‘”Where Prayers May Be Whispered”: Promises of Presence in Protestant Place-Making’. Ethnos. DOI:10.1080/00141844.2019.1604559 Abstract: This article examines …
Hennigan and Purser, “Jobless and Godless”
Hennigan, Brian and Gretchen Purser. 2017. Jobless and Godless: Religious neoliberalism and the project of evangelizing employability in the US. Ethnography Online …
Werbner, “Political prayer and the dignity of labour”
Werbner, Pnina. 2016. Political prayer and the dignity of labour: Botswana’s workers’ movement. Anthropology Today 32(1): 14–18. Abstract: The article draws …
Liebelt, “Mama Mary”
Liebelt, Claudia. 2014. The “Mama Mary” of the White City’s Underside: Reflections on a Filipina Domestic Workers’ Block Rosary in …
Mohr, “Enchanted Calvinism”
Mohr, Adam. 2013. Enchanted Calvinism: Labor Migration, Afflicting Spirits, and Christian Therapy in the Presbyterian Church of Ghana. Rochester: University …