Striking changes are afoot in the way intellectuals address Christianity. Long seen as a largely Western tradition steadily losing its…
Joel Robbins
Joel Robbins is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego. Much of his work has focused on the anthropology of Christianity and on other topics in the anthropology of religion. He is the author of Becoming Sinners: Christianity and Moral Torment in a Papua New Guinea Society (University of California Press, 2004). Together with Matthew Engelke, Robbins is a guest editor of The Immanent Frame's discussion series on Global Christianity, Global Critique, a special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly edited by Engelke and Robbins. Read their introductory post here.
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Working on individualism
July 6, 2010
Even the most open-minded social scientists—those who are up for studying almost any social group or activity—tend to find the…