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Bakker Kellogg, “Perforating Kinship”

Bakker Kellogg, Sarah. 2019. “Perforating Kinship: Syriac Christianity, Ethnicity, and Secular Legibility.” Current Anthropology. https://doi.org/10.1086/705233. Abstract: This article examines the rhetorical invocation of …

July 29, 2019 ndca-admin

The Idea of Global Christianity: An Interview with Angie Heo

Anthropologist Angie Heo’s first book, The Political Lives of Saints: Christian-Muslim Mediation in Egypt (2018), examines saintly intercession to explore …

July 23, 2019 ndca-admin

Bandak, “Repeated Prayers”

Bandak, Andreas.  2016. Repeated prayers: saying the rosary in contemporary Syria.  Religion.  Early online publication. Abstract: Mauss’ seminal doctoral thesis, …

October 25, 2016 ndca-admin

Sturm and Frantzman, “Religious Geopolitics of Palestinian Christianity”

Sturm, Tristan and Seth Frantzman.  2014. Religious Geopolitics of Palestinian Christianity: Palestinian Christian Zionists, Palestinian Liberation Theologists, and American Missions …

December 16, 2014 ndca-admin

Bandak, “Reckoning with the Inevitable”

Bandak, Andreas.  2014. Reckoning with the Inevitable: Death and Dying among Syrian Christians during the Uprising.  Ethnos (Early Online Publication). …

September 15, 2014 ndca-admin

Dik, “‘Your prayer moves God'”

Dik, Oleg.  2015.  “‘Your Prayer Moves God.’”  In Religion and Volunteering, edited by Lesley Hustinx, Johan von Essen, Jacques Haers, …

September 15, 2014 ndca-admin

Kaell, “Trash Talk: US Pilgrims in Israel-Palestine”

Kaell, Hillary (2012) “Trash Talk: US Pilgrims in Israel-Palestine.” Anthropology News 53(8):12-13. Opening Paragraph: “Each year nearly 300,000 US Christians walk …

October 16, 2012 ndca-admin

Albera and Couroucli (eds), “Sharing Sacred Spaces in the Mediterranean: Christians, Muslims, and Jews at Shrines and Sanctuaries”

Albera, Dionigi and Maria Couroucli, eds. (2012). Sharing Sacred Spaces in the Mediterranean: Christians, Muslims, and Jews at Shrines and Sanctuaries. Bloomington: …

February 9, 2012 ndca-admin

Shenoda, “Public Christianity in a Revolutionary Egypt”

Shenoda, Anthony (2012) “Public Christianity in a Revolutionary Egypt” Hot Spots: Revolution and Counter-Revoltuion in Egypt. Cultural Anthropology. 4 February 2012. …

February 6, 2012 ndca-admin

Farhadian, “Introducing World Christianity”

Farhadian, Charles E.  (2012) Introducing World Christianity. Madden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. Publisher’s Description: This interdisciplinary introduction offers students a truly global overview of the worldwide spread …

December 4, 2011 ndca-admin

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Sacred Heart - Naomi Haynes
Man painting, Dolls, Candles, Monastery Artabyunk - Hillary Kaell
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