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Hardin, “Faith and the Pursuit of Health”

Hardin, Jessica. 2018. Faith and the Pursuit of Health: Cardiometabolic Disorders in Samoa. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press.  Publisher’s …

November 14, 2018 ndca-admin

Golomski, “Funeral Culture”

Golomski, Casey. 2018. Funeral Culture: AIDS, Work, and Cultural Change in an African Kingdom. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.  Publisher’s Description: Contemporary forms of …

November 14, 2018 ndca-admin

Seeman, et al., “Blessing Unintended Pregnancy”

Seeman, Don, et al. 2016. Blessing Unintended Pregnancy: religion and the discourse of women’s agency in public health. MAT: Medicine Anthropology …

May 3, 2016 ndca-admin

Everett & Ramirez, “Healing the Curse of the grosero Husband”

Everett, Margaret & Michelle Ramirez. 2015.  Healing the Curse of the grosero Husband: Women’s Health Seeking and Pentecostal Conversion in Oaxaca, …

September 29, 2015 ndca-admin

Hardin, “Christianity, Fat Talk, and Samoan Pastors”

Hardin, Jessica. 2015. “Christianity, Fat Talk, and Samoan Pastors: Rethinking the Fat-Positive-Fat-Stigma Framework.” Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight …

April 14, 2015 ndca-admin

Qi, Liang & Li, “Christian Conversion and the Re-imagining of Illness and Healthcare in Rural China”

Qi, Guboi, Zhenhua Liang & Xiaoyun Li. 2014.  Christian Conversion and the Re-imagining of Illness and Healthcare in Rural China, …

October 9, 2014 ndca-admin

Joshi, Vibha. 2012. A Matter of Belief: Christian Conversion and Healing in North-East India

Reviewed by Jessica Hardin (Pacific University). This is a book about how animism and Christianity are practiced together among Angami people in Nagaland in North-East India. Vibha Joshi provides a wide overview of indigenous religious practices, the contemporary Christian landscape

June 9, 2014 ndca-admin

A Matter of Belief: Book Review

Joshi, Vibha. 2012. A Matter of Belief: Christian Conversion and Healing in North-East India. New York: Berghahn Books. Reviewed by …

June 9, 2014 ndca-admin

Mayblin, “The way blood flows: the sacrificial value of intravenous drip use in Northeast Brazil”

Mayblin, Maya. 2013. The way blood flows: the sacrificial value of intravenous drip use in Northeast Brazil.  Journal of the Royal Anthropological …

April 18, 2013 ndca-admin

Williams, “Spirit Cure: A History of Pentecostal Healing”

Williams, Joseph. 2013. Spirit Cure: A History of Pentecostal Healing. New York: Oxford University Press. Publisher’s Description: Joseph W. Williams examines the …

December 8, 2012 ndca-admin

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