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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"anthropology of Christianity"”.
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Becoming kin: Modernity, authenticity, and the construction of spiritual relatedness in an evangelical parachurch ministry
… and spiritual kinship is created by members of the Body of Christ evangelical parachurch ministry at one public university in the United States. Spiritual relatedness is used to conceptualize members' social relationships and demonstrate the diverse forms of Christian community that emerge in …
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War and Grief, Faith and Healing in a Tamil Catholic Fishing Village in Northern Sri Lanka
… about tremendous suffering upon the lives of the Tamil civilian population in northern Sri Lanka. In May 2009, when the war ended, not a single civilian remained within the Vanni, the former rebel territory, as they had all been killed or displaced. More than one hundred thousand civilians …
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After conversion: gender, modernity, and the regeneration of Christianity across three generations of indigenous evangelicals in highland Ecuador
"This dissertation is an ethnography of the contested process of religious change across three generations of indigenous evangelicals in the Ecuadorian Andes. This process, which I term re-generating Christianity, involves negotiating the legacies of mass conversion in shifting sociocultural …
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The Ethics of Knowing: Epistemic Virtue at an Ex-literalist Church in Nashville
… ethics. It is an ethnography about a community of Christians who have taken it upon themselves to change their way of knowing the Bible in view of becoming better moral subjects. Founded in 1929 as a house church in Nashville, Tennessee, today Heart Ridge Church (HRC) is a predominantly White, …
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Inviting the Other: An ethnographically-informed social history of Sat Tal Christian Ashram
… Sat Tal Christian Ashram (STA) in the foothills of northern India. Using motifs of what was later to be termed ‘inculturation’, Jones envisioned STA as a place that was both “truly Christian and truly Indian” and actively sought to model and impart a Christ-centered spirituality that was not …