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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.
1. Anthropology – Is presently described as “the scientific study of humans and human behavior and societies in the past and present. Social Anthropology and Cultural Anthropology study the norms and values of societies. Linguistic Anthropology studies how language [evolves and] affects social life. Biological
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 ...
1 paź 2016 · 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...
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.
Given the presence of both collectivism and social comparison, SIT is a helpful heuristic tool for examining social identity formation in the biblical documents. In the last section of this article, I shall summarize several of the major and recent works to use SIT in biblical interpretation.
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.
