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The Slain God - Anthropologists and the Christian Faith (Paperback)
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The Slain God - Anthropologists and the Christian Faith (Paperback)
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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 discredited
religious beliefs. 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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