Bialecki, Jon. 2017. A Diagram for Fire: Miracles and Variation in an American Charismatic Movement. Berkeley: University of California Press. …
North America
Montemaggi, “The making of the relational Christian self”
Montemaggi, Francesca. 2017. “The making of the relational Christian self of New Monastics in the UK, US, and Canada.” In …
Klatis, “Insult and Insecurity”
Klaits, Frederick. 2016. Insult and Insecurity: Discernment, Trust, and the Uncanny in Two US Pentecostal Communities. Anthropology Quarterly 89(4): 1143-1173. …
Tarango, Angela. 2015. Choosing the Jesus Way: American Indian Pentecostals and the Fight for the Indigenous Principle.
Reviewed by Aminta Arrington (John Brown University). In the 1880s, two missions administrators, one on each side of the Atlantic Ocean, simultaneously, yet independently, developed the indigenous principle (also called the three-self principle): that the goal of missions should be to create self-supporting, self-governing, and self-propagating churches
Bialecki, “Apocalyptic Diversity”
Bialecki, Jon. 2016. Apocalyptic Diversity, Demonic Anthropology, and the Evangelical Ethnos: Modes of Imagining Difference among Charismatic Evangelicals. North American Dialogue 19(2): …
Bielo, “Creationist History-Making”
Bielo, James S. 2016. Creationist History-Making: Producing a Heterodox Past. In Lost City, Found Pyramid: Understanding Alternative Archaeologies and Pseudoscientific …
Kaell, “Under the Law of God: mimesis and mimetic discipleshipamong Jewish-affinity Christians”
Kaell, Hillary. 2016. Under the Law of God: mimesis and mimetic discipleship among Jewish-affinity Christians. JRAI DOI: 10.1111/1467-9655.12443. Abstract: Messianic Judaism, a network of …
Sanders, Talena. 2013. Liahona
Reviewed by Jon Bialecki (University of Edinburgh). Liahona is not an ethnographic film. It is not even a documentary, or, at least, a documentary of the standard type. Consisting of images shot on scratchy 16 millimeter film using a hand camera, mixed with a wealth of found footage (much of it originally filmed by the Church of the Latter Day Saints
McAlister, “The militarization of prayer in America”
McAlister, Elizabeth. 2016. The militarization of prayer in America: white and Native American spiritual warfare. Journal of Religious and Political …
Marina, “Becoming a God Hunter”
Marina, Peter. J. 2015. Becoming a God hunter towards conversion in a Brooklyn tongue-speaking church. Social Compass. Early online publication. …