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Robbins, “Theology and the Anthropology of Christian Life”

Robbins, Joel. 2020. Theology and the Anthropology of Christian Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press Anthropological theory can radically transform our …

November 26, 2020 Leanne Williams Green

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

High, “A Little Bit Christian”

High, Casey. 2016. “A Little Bit Christian”: Memories of Conversion and Community in Post-Christian Amazonia. American Anthropologist. DOI: 10.1111/aman.12526 Abstract: Conversion to Christianity in Amazonia …

May 31, 2016 ndca-admin

Lindhardt, “New ways of being Pentecostal in Latin America”

Lindhardt, Martin. ed. 2016. New ways of being Pentecostal in Latin America. Lanham: Lexington.  Publisher’s Description: The explosive growth of Pentecostalism has radically …

March 12, 2016 ndca-admin

Harkness, “Basic Kinship Terms: Christian Relations, Chronotopic Formulations, and a Korean Confrontation of Language”

Harkness, Nicholas. 2015.” Basic Kinship Terms: Christian Relations, Chronotopic Formulations, and a Korean Confrontation of Language.” Anthropological Quarterly 88(2):305-336. Abstract: This …

May 28, 2015 ndca-admin

Hunt (ed.), “Handbook of Global Contemporary Christianity”

Hunt, Stephen (ed).  2015. Handbook of Global Contemporary Christianity: Themes and Developments in Culture, Politics, and Society.  Leiden: Brill. Publisher’s …

April 7, 2015 ndca-admin

Occasional Paper: Mikeshin, “Russian Evangelicalism Glocalized”

Russian Evangelicalism Glocalized Igor Mikeshin (University of Helsinki) This paper echoes the idea of glocalization of Evangelical Christianity, suggested by …

March 6, 2015 ndca-admin

Daswani, “Looking Back, Moving Forward: Transformation and Ethical Practice in the Ghanaian Church of Pentecost “

Daswani, GIrish. 2015. Looking Back, Moving Forward: Transformation and Ethical Practice in the Ghanaian Church of Pentecost. Toronto: University of Toronto …

March 1, 2015 ndca-admin

Telban, “The power of place: Spatio-temporality of a Melanesian religious movement”

Telban, Borut. 2013.  The power of place: Spatio-temporality of a Melanesian religious movement. Anthropological Notebooks 19(3):81–100. Abstract: Over the years, several …

February 2, 2015 ndca-admin

Engelhardt, “Singing the Right Way: Orthodox Christians and Secular Enchantment in Estonia”

Engelhardt, Jeffers. 2014. Singing the Right Way: Orthodox Christians and Secular Enchantment in Estonia. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press. …

October 16, 2014 ndca-admin

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