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2014, Cambridge Anthropology
In this issue of Cambridge Anthropology, Joel Robbins argues from his fieldwork among Arapmin Christians that anthropologists need to better theorize the extinction of religious traditions and the circumstances under which those occur. My invited commentary insists that categories of continuity and change are themselves evaluative and that anthropologists cannot take for granted their meaning without attending to the moral significance of change in local terms. I also draw on my own research among Ethiopian Beta Israel to illustrate this point. I will be happy to send copies of this publication on request.
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“Disciplinary Conflicts in the Study of Religions: Anthropology, Sociology, and ‘Lines in the Sand’.” Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 14/2: 141-169, 2002.2002 •
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A Historian/Historian of Religions’ Response2020 •
As a historian-cum-historian of religion, I welcome the fine collection of essays in this special issue of the journal, contributed by a promising cohort of emerging ethnographers of World Christianity. As a non-ethnographer, I employ as a baseline measure of their endeavors the characteristic historiography of the field, in particular the value it places on indigenous appropriation over missionary transmission (an approach pioneered by Andrew Walls and Lamin Sanneh, among others). I couple that with a studied conviction that Christianity in the global South invariably emerges out of a matrix conditioned by a complex of pre-existing religions, varying, naturally, by time and place. In the following, I bundle the six authors into a group of two, whose case studies illuminate contrastive poles in the practice of ethnography for World Christianity, and a group of four, who each espouse a theory-laden ethnography intended to change the trajectory of the field, even as they emerge from it.
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