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Nadya Pohran

Invitation and Belonging in a Christian Ashram: Building Interreligious Community in Northern India

Based on 10 months of ethnographic fieldwork, this book presents a social history of Sat Tal Christian Ashram (STA), an Ashram in the Kumaon foothills of northern India. This book explores how some Christ…

Indigenous Churches

This book raises the question of what an Indigenous church is and how its members define their ties of affiliation or separation. Establishing a pioneering dialogue between Amazonian and Gran Chaco studie…

Priya Swamy

Struggles for Hindu Sacred Space in the Netherlands: Affect and Absence

This book asks us to consider what is absent, rather than what is present, when studying religions. Priya Swamy argues that absent religious spaces are in themselves abstract locations that painfully memo…

Marshall Sahlins

The New Science of the Enchanted Universe

One of the world's preeminent cultural anthropologists leaves a last work that fundamentally reconfigures how we study most other cultures From the perspective of Western modernity, humanity inhabits a d…

Nomi M Stolzenberg

American Shtetl

Settled in the mid-1970s by a small contingent of Hasidic families, Kiryas Joel is an American town with few parallels in Jewish history-but many precedents among religious communities in the United State…

Annika Schmeding

Sufi Civilities: Religious Authority and Political Change in Afghanistan

"Despite its pervasive reputation as a place of religious extremes and war, Afghanistan has a complex and varied religious landscape where elements from a broad spectrum of religious belief vie for a plac…

Anke Richter

Cult Trip: Inside the World of Coercion and Control

"At a new age festival in Byron Bay, journalist Anke Richter is finding her spiritual awakening when she meets a woman - a survivor of the Auckland cult Centrepoint - who will change the course of her lif…

Korie Little Edwards

Estranged Pioneers

Drawing on data from a nationally representative study, including more than 100 in-depth interviews, Estranged Pioneers examines what it means for pastors of color to lead in multiracial spaces and draws …

Harvey Whitehouse

Inheritance

Anthropologist Harvey Whitehouse offers a sweeping account of how three ancient biases-conformism, religiosity, and tribalism-shaped humanity's past and imperil its future.

Erin E Stiles

The Devil Sat on My Bed

Many Latter-day Saints in Utah report visits from spirits-both the benevolent spirits of kin and threatening evil spirits-and understand these encounters with reference to key Latter-day teachings. In The…

Christian Temporalities

This volume explores how different forms of Christianity shape people's visions of pasts and futures, and how the transcendent is brought into human time. Beyond conventional discussions around breaks wit…

Liz Bucar

Stealing My Religion

Liz Bucar navigates the thorny terrain of religious appropriation, from yoga classes to non-Muslims who signal allyship by donning hijabs. Exploring the ethics of alleged appropriations, Bucar argues that…

Paul Seabright

The Divine Economy

Religion in the twenty-first century is alive and well across the world, despite its apparent decline in North America and parts of Europe. Vigorous competition between and within religious movements has …

Alex K Gearin

Global Ayahuasca

"Ceremonies of drinking the psychoactive brew ayahuasca have flourished across the planet in recent decades. Emerging from Indigenous roots in the Amazon rainforest, the brew is now envisaged by many as t…

Alex K Gearin

Global Ayahuasca

"Ceremonies of drinking the psychoactive brew ayahuasca have flourished across the planet in recent decades. Emerging from Indigenous roots in the Amazon rainforest, the brew is now envisaged by many as t…

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T&t Clark Handbook of Anthropology and the Hebrew Bible

This handbook presents an overview of the main approaches from social and cultural anthropology to the Hebrew Bible. Since the late 19th century, biblical scholarship has addressed issues and themes relat…

Henni Alava

Christianity, Politics and the Afterlives of War in Uganda: There Is Confusion

Christianity, Politics and the Afterlives of War in Ugandasheds critical light on the complex and unstable relationship between Christianity and politics, and peace and war. Drawing on long-running ethnog…

Alessandra Harris

In the Shadow of Freedom: A Catholic Call for Justice

"Content warning: please be advised that in describing historical and recent events, various chapters contain graphic details of violence, lynching, killing, executions, rape, infanticide, police brutalit…