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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.
26 sie 2009 · The Social Life of Scriptures is the first book to present an eclectic, cross-cultural, and comparative investigation of Bible use. Moreover, it models an important movement to...
23 paź 2014 · The book aims to provide the outlines of an everyday ethics, drawing on Christian thought and practice from many periods as well as on current work in social anthropology. It thus seeks to understand and explicate crucial practices which structure human life from before the cradle to beyond the grave.
The book begins by describing the four fields of anthropology, methods intrinsic to cultural anthropology, and how it differs from other disciplines (ch. 1).
22 sie 2022 · You could easily use these books for study groups or other discipleship venues: 1. Theological Anthropology: A Guide for the Perplexed, Marc Cortez. 2. An Introduction to Theological Anthropology, Joshua Farris. Both are designed to be introductory texts to the main topics in anthropology.
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.
3 mar 2021 · Farris notes the role that embodiment plays in one's gender, one's physical activity, and one's social interactions. He argues for the congruence of narrative theories of identity with the theological meta themes of creation and redemption. In Chapter 2, Farris considers human origins.
