Meneses, Eloise. (2019) “Religiously Engaged Ethnography: Reflections of a Christian Anthropologist Studying Hindus in India and Nepal.” Ethnos. DOI: 10.1080/0014184 4.2019.1641126. Abstract: Anthropology …
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Bjork-James, “Gender and Religion”
Bjork-James, Sophie. “Gender and Religion.” Oxford Bibliographies. Abstract: Gender is central to most religious orders. In turn, religions have a significant impact …
Elisha, “Dancing the Word”
Elisha, Omri. 2018. “Dancing the Word: Techniques of embodied authority among Christian praise dancers in New York City.” American Ethnologist. 45(3): 380-391. …
Bubandt, “The Empty Seashell”
Bubandt, Nils. 2014. The Empty Seashell: Witchcraft and Doubt on an Indonesian Island. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Publisher’s Description: The Empty Seashell …
Dawley, “From Wrestling with Monsters to Wrestling with God”
Dawley, William. 2018. From Wrestling with Monsters to Wrestling with God: Masculinities, ‘Spirituality,’ and the Group-ization of Religious Life in …
Crawley, “Blackpentecostal Breath”
Crawley, Ashon T. 2016. Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility. New York: Fordham University Press. Publisher’s Description: In this profoundly innovative book, …
Ikeuchi, “From ethnic religion to generative selves”
Ikeuchi, Suma. 2017. “From ethnic religion to generative selves: Pentecostalism among Nikkei Brazilian migrants in Japan,” Contemporary Japan, 1-16. Early …
“Is there such a thing as religious language?”
FORUM: 2015. “Is there such a thing as religious language? Is there such a thing as religion? Suomen Antropologi: Journal of …
Nongbri, Brent. 2013. Before Religion: A History of a Modern Concept
Reviewed by Jon Bialecki (University of Edinburgh). On its face, Brent Nongbri’s book, Before Religion, is seemingly not about Christianity, but about religion more generally – or more specifically, about the category of religion more generally. Nongbri’s argument is that religion is not a human universal, but rather construction that has both a history and a genealogy