The development of a phenomenological approach to religion and the
rise of perspectivism are challenging anthropology's exclusive
rootedness in the ontology of secularism. When considered with the
increased interest in the anthropology of religion as an area of
study, it is clear that there is a growing need for
non-reductionist representations of Christian thought and
experience in ethnography. This volume is intended as a critique of
anthropology's epistemological and ontological assumptions and a
demonstration of the value added by an expanded set of parameters
for the field. The book's core argument is that while ethnographers
have allowed their own perspectives to be positively influenced by
the perspectives of their informants, until recently anthropology
has done little in the way of adopting these other viewpoints as
critical tools for analysis precisely because it has represented
those viewpoints from a limited epistemological perspective. With
chapters organized around topics in epistemology and ontology
written by scholars of anthropology, theology and history, and an
afterword by Joel Robbins, the book is essential reading for
scholars of the anthropology of religion as well as other
philosophically-oriented social scientists, theologians and those
who are interested in gaining further insight into the human
condition.
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