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  • Making the Modern Primitive

    Cultural Tourism in the Trobriand Islands

    by Michelle MacCarthy ...
    Making the Modern Primitive provides an anthropological analysis of the encounter between local residents and tourists in the Trobriand Islands, a place renowned in anthropology and represented in various media as "culturally authentic." In such a place, how are ideas about authenticity implicated in creating and representing the self and cultural Others in the context of cultural tourism? ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Pentecostalism and Witchcraft

    Spiritual Warfare in Africa and Melanesia

    Edited by Knut Rio, Michelle MacCarthy, Ruy Blanes ...
    Series series Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
    This open access book presents fresh ethnographic work from the regions of Africa and Melanesia—where the popularity of charismatic Christianity can be linked to a revival and transformation of witchcraft. The volume demonstrates how the Holy Spirit has become an adversary to the reconfirmed presence of witches, demons, and sorcerers as manifestations of evil. We learn how this is articulated in ... Read more

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  • Going to Pentecost

    An Experimental Approach to Studies in Pentecostalism

    by Ruy Llera Blanes, Michelle MacCarthy, Annelin Eriksen ...
    Series Book 7 - Ethnography, Theory, Experiment
    Co-authored by three anthropologists with long–term expertise studying Pentecostalism in Vanuatu, Angola, and Papua New Guinea/the Trobriand Islands respectively, Going to Pentecost offers a comparative study of Pentecostalism in Africa and Melanesia, focusing on key issues as economy, urban sociality, and healing. More than an ordinary comparative book, it recognizes the changing nature of ... Read more

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    Theological Anthropology in Response to Systemic Evil

    by Eleazar Fernandez ...
    This book explores theological anthropology—the doctrine of what it means to be human and to be created in God’s image. Fernandez argues that our life in the image of God is damaged and frustrated by the systemic evil of society, particularly the four radical evils of classism, racism, sexism, and naturism (destructive practices against the ecosystem). At the heart of these four evils are matters ... Read more

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  • The Anthropology of Global Pentecostalism and Evangelicalism

    by Joel Robbins ...
    The phenomenal growth of Pentecostalism and evangelicalism around the world in recent decades has forced us to rethink what it means to be religious and what it means to be global. The success of these religious movements has revealed tensions and resonances between the public and the private, the religious and the cultural, and the local and the global. This volume provides a wide ranging and ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Spirits and Letters

    Reading, Writing and Charisma in African Christianity

    by Thomas G. Kirsch ...
    Studies of religion have a tendency to conceptualise ‘the Spirit’ and ‘the Letter’ as mutually exclusive and intrinsically antagonistic. However, the history of religions abounds in cases where charismatic leaders deliberately refer to and make use of writings. This book challenges prevailing scholarly notions of the relationship between ‘charisma’ and ‘institution’ by analysing reading and ... Read more

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  • Public Righteousness

    The Performative Ethics of Human Flourishing

    Edited by Abimbola A. Adelakun ...
    Public Righteousness: The Performative Ethics of Human Flourishing is driven by the idea that part of what manifests as a disorderly display of virtue in public culture is underlined by the desire to see a more righteous society and an expression of the will to enact such an ideal world into reality. This book re-structures the ferment of such public displays and fashions an ethic that overturns ... Read more

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  • Decolonizing Ecotheology

    Indigenous and Subaltern Challenges

    Edited by S. Lily Mendoza, George Zachariah ...
    Series series Intersectionality and Theology Series
    Decolonizing Ecotheology: Indigenous and Subaltern Challenges is a pioneering attempt to contest the politics of conquest, commodification, and homogenization in mainstream ecotheology, informed by the voices of Indigenous and subaltern communities from around the world. The book marshals a robust polyphony of reportage, wonder, analysis, and acumen seeking to open the door to a different prospect ... Read more

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  • Ritual and Belief

    Readings in the Anthropology of Religion

    Edited by David Hicks ...
    Ritual and Belief: Readings in the Anthropology of Religion is a collection of 41 readings in religion, magic, and witchcraft. The choice of readings is eclectic: no single anthropological approach or theoretical perspective dominates the text. Theoretical significance, scholarly eminence of the author, and inherent interest provide the principal criteria, and each reading complements its ... Read more

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  • Transforming Worldviews

    An Anthropological Understanding of How People Change

    by Paul Hiebert ...
    In the past, changes in behavior and in belief have been leading indicators for missionaries that Christian conversion had occurred. But these alone--or even together--are insufficient for a gospel understanding of conversion. For effective biblical mission, Paul G. Hiebert argues, we must add a third element: a change in worldview. Here he offers a comprehensive study of worldview--its philosophy ... Read more

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  • The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Practical Theology

    Edited by Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore ...
    Series Book 73 - Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion
    Through a series of essays contributed by leading experts in the field, The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Practical Theology presents an introduction to practical theology as a major area of Christian study and practice, including an overview of its key developments, themes, methods, and future directions.The first comprehensive reference work to provide a survey, description and analysis of ... Read more

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  • The Economy of Desire

    Christianity and Capitalism in a Postmodern World

    by Daniel Bell, Jr., James Smith ...
    Series series The Church and Postmodern Culture
    In this addition to the award-winning Church and Postmodern Culture series, respected theologian Daniel Bell compares and contrasts capitalism and Christianity, showing how Christianity provides resources for faithfully navigating the postmodern global economy.Bell approaches capitalism and Christianity as alternative visions of humanity, God, and the good life. Considering faith and economics in ... Read more

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