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Wintrup, “Speaking With Vampires and Angels”

Wintrup, James. 2019. “Speaking With Vampires and Angels: The Ambient Afterlives of Christian Humanitarianism in Rural Zambia.” History and Anthropology.  Abstract: During …

February 8, 2020 ndca-admin

Arrington, “Songs of the Lisu Hills”

Arrington, Aminta. 2020. Songs of the Lisu Hills: Practicing Christianity in Southwest China. University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press.  …

February 5, 2020 ndca-admin

Handman, “A Few Grass Huts”

Handman, Courtney. (2019) “A Few Grass Huts: Denominational Ambivalence and Infrastructural Form in Colonial New Guinea.” Anthropological Quarterly. 92(4):1019-1038. Abstract: …

February 3, 2020 ndca-admin

Handman, “The Language of Evangelism”

Handman, Courtney. 2018. “The Language of Evangelism: Christian Cultures of Circulation Beyond the Missionary Prologue.” Annual Review of Anthropology. 47: …

July 31, 2018 ndca-admin

Hovland, “Beyond Mediation”

Hovland, Ingie. 2018. Beyond Mediation: An Anthropological Understanding of the Relationship Between Humans, Materiality, and Transcendence in Protestant Christianity. Journal of …

May 29, 2018 ndca-admin

Bruner, Jason. 2017. Living Salvation in the East African Revival in Uganda

Reviewed by Emma Wild-Wood (University of Edinburgh). Since its beginnings in the 1930s the East African Revival has had a lasting influence on the religious culture of the region. It began in Uganda and Rwanda as a lively, internal critique to the orderly and hierarchical Anglican Church of Uganda

January 2, 2018 ndca-admin

Tomlinson, “Try the Spirits.”

Tomlinson, Matt. 2017. “Try the Spirits: power encounters and anti-wonder in Christian missions,” Journal of Religious and Political Practices 3(3): …

August 23, 2017 ndca-admin

Handman, “Figures of history: Interpreting Jewish pasts in Christian Papua New Guinea”

Handman, Courtney. 2016. Interpreting Jewish pasts in Christian Papua New Guinea. HAU 6(1):237-260.  Abstract: This article examines two competing historical formations that expatriate …

July 19, 2016 ndca-admin

Elazar, “Translating culture”

Elazar, Gideon.  2016. Translating culture: missionaries and linguists in contemporary Yunnan Province.  Asian Ethnicity.  Early online publication. Abstract: In an …

July 8, 2016 ndca-admin

Becker, Adam. 2015. Revival and Awakening: American Evangelical Missionaries in Iran and the Origins of Assyrian Nationalism

Reviewed by Secil Dagtas (University of Waterloo). What is the relationship between the modern categories of “religion” and “nation”? The general tendency in popular and academic works has been to approach this relationship as one of tension, contradiction, or replacement.

January 12, 2016 ndca-admin

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