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The Father of Christian Anthropology
Zeitschrift Fur Die Neutestamentliche Wissenschaft Und Die Kunde Der Alteren Kirche, 1972exaly +2 more sources
THE CHRISTIANITY OF ANTHROPOLOGY*
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2005This article critiques the way in which the discipline of anthropology has construed Christianity, arguing that too narrow and ascetic a model of Christianity has become standard and questioning the claims of the ‘secular’ social sciences to have severed themselves entirely from their Christian theological underpinnings.
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Mission and the Anthropology of Christianity
2022Abstract This chapter outlines the long relationship and mutual engagement between mission studies and anthropology. It focuses in particular on the anthropology of Christianity and how this sub-field of anthropology can be of benefit to mission studies.
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The Future of Christian Anthropology
Theology Today, 1963THESIS: The time is decisively ripe for the aggressive presentation of a perspective on Christian anthropology that differs, in significant respects, from every anthropological point of view now widely held or advocated. Stated negatively, the thesis finds every widely held point of view in Christian anthropology to be misleading because of its ...
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THE IDEA OF AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF CHRISTIANITY
Interventions, 2009The writings of Talal Asad offer a consistent and singular reflection on the anthropological function of concepts. In a variety of manners, the use and mention of a concept identifies the practice of a collective speaker before it testifies to a designated object, real or imagined.
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Contesting the Sacred: The Anthropology of Christian Pilgrimage
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1992Whether a pilgrimage crystallizes around a place, a visionary individual, or a text, it brings widely diverse individuals and their beliefs, doctrines, and expectations into contact with each other. One person's holy site is another person's profit center - and this mingling of the sacred and the profane is what makes pilgrimages and their destinations
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Christianity, Anthropology, Politics
Current Anthropology, 2014In this article I engage with the conceptual difficulties that studying Christianity poses for anthropology, revisiting and expanding on the critical moves made in the development of the subfield, especially in debates among Robbins, Haynes, Cannell, Garriott, and O’Neill.
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2021
The article analyzes the value of Notes from Underground for Christian anthropology of the Serbian theologian Justin Popović. He considers the hero of Notes from the Underground as the genealogical predecessor of Dostoevsky’s negative characters: Raskolnikov, Kirillov, the Grand Inquisitor, Ivan Karamazov, who develop, experience and theoretically ...
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The article analyzes the value of Notes from Underground for Christian anthropology of the Serbian theologian Justin Popović. He considers the hero of Notes from the Underground as the genealogical predecessor of Dostoevsky’s negative characters: Raskolnikov, Kirillov, the Grand Inquisitor, Ivan Karamazov, who develop, experience and theoretically ...
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The Anthropology of Christianity per se
European Journal of Sociology, 2007Several anthropologists have recently linked diagnoses of the diffuse impact of the Christian religion on the history of their discipline to programmatic calls for a consolidation of the “anthropology of Christianity”. This review article suggests that complaints of long-term neglect of Christianity in the anthropological literature are exaggerated ...
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