Skip to content
The University of Edinburgh

New Directions in the Anthropology of Christianity

New Directions in the Anthropology of Christianity
  • Home
  • About
    • Curator contacts
  • Bloomsbury book series
  • Reviews
    • Books
    • Films
    • Forums
  • Resources
    • Author interviews
    • Teaching archive
    • Bibliography
    • Conference Dispatches
  • Occasional papers

linguistic anthropology

Bielo, “Particles-to-People…Molecules-to-Man”

Bielo, James S. 2019. “‘Particles-to-People…Molecules-to-Man,’ Creationist Poetics in Public Debates.” Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. 29(1): 4-26. This article examines religious …

May 19, 2019 ndca-admin

Tomlinson and Millie, eds. The Monologic Imagination

Tomlinson, Matt and Julian Millie, eds. The Monologic Imagination (New York and London: Oxford University Press, 2017). Publisher’s Description: The pioneering …

August 3, 2017 ndca-admin

Handman, “Critical Christianity”

Handman, Courtney. 2015. Critical Christianity: Translation and Denominational Conflict in Papua New Guinea (The Anthropology of Christianity). Berkeley: University of California …

October 25, 2014 ndca-admin

Barchas-Lichtenstein, “Jehovah’s Witnesses, endangered languages, and the globalized textual community”

Barchas-Lichtenstein. 2014. Jehovah’s Witnesses, endangered languages, and the globalized textual community. Language and Communication DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2014.05.006 (pre-publication release) Abstract: This article explores Jehovah’s Witnesses’ use …

July 22, 2014 ndca-admin

Webster, Joseph. 2013. The Anthropology of Protestantism: Faith and Crisis among Scottish Fishermen

Reviewed by Matt Tomlinson (Australian National University). This book is an innovative attempt to understand the relationship between language and materiality in terms of the Protestant doctrine of consubstantiation, “that view of the Christian Eucharist that attempts

February 14, 2014 ndca-admin

Book reviews

Film reviews

Review forums

Contact

Contact details are listed on the Curator Contacts page.

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

Subscribe

Subscribe to our mailing list to receive updates.


  • Terms & conditions
  • Privacy & cookies
  • Modern slavery
  • Website accessibility
  • Freedom of information publication scheme

The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336, VAT Registration Number GB 592 9507 00, and is acknowledged by the UK authorities as a “Recognised body” which has been granted degree awarding powers.

Unless explicitly stated otherwise, all material is copyright © The University of Edinburgh.