The Ethnocentrism of Science: Race, Biology, and Bigoted Fictions
Matthew Mutter on Charles King Near the end of Gods of the Upper Air, Charles King plucks a 1958 letter from Margaret Mead’s
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Difference and Humanity Among Christians in Indian Slums
Liana Chua Reviews Nathaniel Roberts’ To Be Cared For Recently, a certain meme made the rounds on my (admittedly anthropologist-heavy) social media feed.
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First Impressions # 96: Media, Race, and Sexuality in Transnational Santería
Santería, as a site of analytical inquiry, disrupts many of dominant theoretical approaches to the study of transnational religion. Kristian Petersen talks with
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Directions in the Study of Religion: Sarah Dees on The Materialization of Native American Religions
Nineteenth-century anthropological research on Native Americans communities still shapes how we understand them today. Kristian Petersen talks with Sarah Dees, Lecturer in Religious
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Whose God was Slain? Anthropology and the Diversity of World Christianity – By Jason Bruner
Jason Bruner on Timothy Larsen’s The Slain God Is anthropology inherently inimical to the truth claims of the Christian faith? In The Slain
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“From Despair to Hope”: Antiretroviral Therapy, Redemption, and Christianity in Africa – By Jessica Hardin
Jessica Hardin on Rijk van Dijk, et al. (eds), Religion and AIDS Treatment in Africa In 2009, an estimated 2.1 million people with
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First Impressions #43: Hillary Kaell
Kristian Petersen talks with Hillary Kaell about her new book, Walking Where Jesus Walked: American Christians and Holy Land Pilgrimage. Dr. Kaell is a
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Directions in the Study of Religion: Carole McGranahan
Kristian Petersen talks with Carole McGranahan, Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at University of Colorado, about Self-Immolation as Protest in Tibet.
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Conversations in Black: John L. Jackson, Jr.
Monica Miller and Christopher Driscoll engage in impolite conversation with John L. Jackson, Jr. In the first installment in this new series, Conversations
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On Desiring God: A New Take on Feminist Theology – By Frances Young
Frances Young on Sarah Coakley’s God, Sexuality, and the Self: An Essay ‘On the Trinity’ Feminism and “patristics” (now often renamed early Christian studies)
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