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The Slain God - Anthropologists and the Christian Faith (Hardcover)
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The Slain God - Anthropologists and the Christian Faith (Hardcover)
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Throughout its entire history, the discipline of anthropology has
been perceived as undermining, or even discrediting, Christian
faith. Many of its most prominent theorists have been agnostics who
assumed that ethnographic findings and theories had exposed
religious beliefs to be untenable. E. B. Tylor, the founder of the
discipline in Britain, lost his faith through studying
anthropology. James Frazer saw the material that he presented in
his highly influential work, The Golden Bough, as demonstrating
that Christian thought was based on the erroneous thought patterns
of 'savages.' On the other hand, some of the most eminent
anthropologists have been Christians, including E. E.
Evans-Pritchard, Mary Douglas, Victor Turner, and Edith Turner.
Moreover, they openly presented articulate reasons for how their
religious convictions cohered with their professional work. Despite
being a major site of friction between faith and modern thought,
the relationship between anthropology and Christianity has never
before been the subject of a book-length study. In this
groundbreaking work, Timothy Larsen examines the point where doubt
and faith collide with anthropological theory and evidence.
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