Sound is key to how religion is made public. Yet sound, to my mind, must equally be understood through its…
Pentecostal sounds and silences in Rwanda
Pentecostalism
Reclamation in The Fellowship of Affirming Ministries
The Fellowship of Affirming Ministries (TFAM) occupies a distinct position in the religious lives of its mostly LGBT and African…
The other evangelicals
Conducting ethnographic fieldwork across the country, I witnessed evangelicals engage diverse racial, economic, religious, political, and moral-cultural others in a…
Practice and performance in ritual language
Does it make a difference to think of ritual language such as prayer in terms of a relation between practice…
CFP: Remixing Religion
The University of Texas at Austin has announced a call for papers for the upcoming interdisciplinary graduate student conference, "Remixing…
A hard road for an atheist preacher
In an article in this past Sunday's New York Times Magazine, Robert F. Worth writes about the four days he…
Contradictions of religious freedom and religious repression
The collapse of the Soviet Union marked the end of seventy years of anti-religious policies---of a period in which religious…
De-provincializing Oprah
In Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon, Kathryn Lofton holds up a lustrous mirror to the polymorphously perverse dynamics of…
Falling on the sword of the spirit
There is no doubt that anthropology needs new approaches for understanding dramatic change, a new way of figuring the relationship…
Blinded by the light, or, Why can’t liberals see?
Where a century ago liberal Christians (and even some anthropologists) were citing Marx and Bergson in the hope of transforming…