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Critically reviewing scholarship across history, anthropology, religious studies, and sociology, I characterize evangelical Biblicism as an interpretive tradition mediated by a complex set of sociocultural practices and textual ideologies.
Biblical anthropology: the Biblical Study of Man Anthropology is composed of four specialized fields: 4 (1) cultural anthropology, (2) linguistics, (3) archaeology, and (4) physical anthropology.
Social Anthropology and Cultural Anthropology study the norms and values of societies. Linguistic Anthropology studies how language [evolves and] affects social life.
Usually conceived under the concept of ‘social-science approaches’, the development of these insights and interpretative methods exposed a variety of interests, mostly biblical (e.g. genealogies, prophecy, apocalypticism, sectarianism), but also illustrating more classical topics of anthropological research (e.g. politics and social ...
Abstract: The anthropology of religion was shaped by – and sought to influence – new understandings of the scriptures. Maintaining an uneasy, often unacknowledged, usually one-sided dialogue with biblical scholarship, the Victorian anthropologists introduced new comparative perspectives.
This article reviews the development of the anthropology of Christianity and considers the new questions and approaches introduced by the articles in this special issue of Current Anthropology.
5 wrz 2018 · Subsequently, the entry outlines the theoretical development of social and cultural anthropology during the twentieth century and the way in which this came to a moment of decisive crisis in...
