Tsintjilonis, Dimitri. (2019) “‘The past is promise to the future’: stories, persons, and the devil in Greece.” JRAI. 25(1): 148-165. Abstract: …
Personhood
Falck, “The Thomas-Souls Ministry”
Falck, Christiane. 2019. The Thomas Souls Ministry – Onto-praxis, Dividualism, and Charismatic Catholicism at Lake Chambri, Papua New Guinea. Oceania …
Bjork-James, “Training the Porous Body”
Bjork-James, Sophie. 2018. “Training the Porous Body: Evangelicals and the Ex-Gay Movement.” American Anthropologist. 120(4): 647-658 In this article, I examine …
Scherz, “Enduring the Awkward Embrace”
Scherz, China. 2017. Enduring the Awkward Embrace: Ontology and Ethical Work in a Ugandan Convent. American Anthropologist 120(1): 102-112. The first …
Mayblin, “The Lapsed and the Laity”
Mayblin, Maya. 2017. The lapsed and the laity: discipline and lenience in the study of religion. Journal of the Royal …
Ikeuchi, “Accompanied Self”
Ikeuchi, Suma. 2017. Accompanied Self: Debating Pentecostal Individual and Japanese Relational Selves in Transnational Japan. Ethos 45(1): 3-23. Abstract: While …
Haynes, “Learning to pray the Pentecostal way”
Naomi Haynes, 2016. “Learning to pray the Pentecostal way: language and personhood on the Zambian Copperbelt,” Religion, early online publication: …
Vilaça, Aparecida. 2016. Praying and Preying: Christianity in Indigenous Amazonia, translated by David Rodgers
Reviewed by G.E.R. Lloyd (Needham Research Institute, Cambridge UK). This is a truly remarkable book. In most anthropological monographs the reader is given a detailed analysis of one particular collectivity, the circumstances of their lives, their kinship relations, social structures, myths, rituals, ways of making sense of the world and of their place in it.Â
High, “A Little Bit Christian”
High, Casey. 2016. âA Little Bit Christianâ: Memories of Conversion and Community in Post-Christian Amazonia. American Anthropologist. DOI: 10.1111/aman.12526 Abstract: Conversion to Christianity in Amazonia …
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 âreligionâ and ânationâ? The general tendency in popular and academic works has been to approach this relationship as one of tension, contradiction, or replacement.