Introduction

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Coleman ◽  
Rosalind I. J. Hackett
Keyword(s):  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Scientific Study ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Social Scientific Study ◽  
Anthropological Study ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
The Way

This introductory chapter examines the varied dimensions of the anthropological study of Pentecostalism and evangelicalism (P/e). It looks into a brief history of the anthropology of P/e as a growing field of study, tracing the “coming of age” of this subfield and how it occurred. In addition, the chapter explores the reasons why an ethnographer—however secular—might have taken up interest in an anthropological study of P/e, thus paving the way for a discussion on the vast potential of an anthropology of P/e for social scientific study due to its conjoining of the academic, cultural, and P/e worlds. Given the scope of the subject at hand, the chapter thus sets out the specific definitions of P/e to be undertaken in this volume, and elucidates further into the vast spectrum of an anthropology of P/e.

Bringing Moral Culture into the Fray

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin Farrell
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Conflict ◽  
Scientific Study ◽  
Theoretical Argument ◽  
Moral Culture ◽  
Social Scientific Study ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Basic Level

This introductory chapter briefly presents the conflict in Yellowstone, elaborates on the book's theoretical argument, and specifies its substantive and theoretical contributions to the social scientific study of environment, culture, religion, and morality. The chapter argues that the environmental conflict in Yellowstone is not—as it would appear on the surface—ultimately all about scientific, economic, legal, or other technical evidence and arguments, but an underlying struggle over deeply held “faith” commitments, feelings, and desires that define what people find sacred, good, and meaningful in life at a most basic level. An overview of the subsequent chapters is also presented.

scholarly journals Legitimizing Claims of Special Knowledge

2021 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-34
Author(s):  
David G. Robertson
Keyword(s):  
Religious Studies ◽  
Scientific Study ◽  
Conspiracy Theories ◽  
Social Scientific Study ◽  
Significant Function ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Special Knowledge ◽  
Social Scientific

A significant function of the category “religion” is demarcating and insulating particular claims of special knowledge — but too often, Religious Studies serves to mystify and defend this function, rather than critically analysing it. Drawing on categories in which claims of special knowledge are central, including Gnosticism, conspiracy theories and esotericism, this paper will look at the history of Religious Studies scholars operating within epistemes which it should be critiquing. Yet a focus on multiple and overlapping knowledges, and competition over epistemic capital, suggests a possible future for the social-scientific study of religion.

scholarly journals Zen-Christian Dual Belonging and the Practice of Apophasis: Strategies of Meeting Rose Drew’s Theological Challenge

Open Theology ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
André van der Braak
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Scientific Study ◽  
Social Scientific Study ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Theological Challenge

AbstractAn important subset of the phenomenon of multiple religious belonging is that of Buddhist- Christian belonging: people who claim to belong to, owe allegiance to or believe in both the Buddhist and Christian faiths. This phenomenon has not yet been the subject of much normative theological investigation, as opposed to descriptive and empirically-oriented social scientific study. Recently, however, two theological studies have appeared on dual Buddhist-Christian belonging: Rose Drew’s Buddhist and Christian? and the collection of essays Buddhist-Christian Dual Belonging. From a theological point of view, is it possible to be authentically both Buddhist and Christian? Rose Drew has formulated two demands that can be applied in investigating such a theological question. In this article, I will first critically assess several possible strategies for dealing with those two demands, and then explore an approach to Zen-Christian dual belonging that focuses on the practice of apophasis.

Anthropological communities of interpretation for Burma: An overview

2008 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
U Chit Hlaing
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Anthropological Theory ◽  
History Of ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

AbstractThis paper surveys the history of anthropological work on Burma, dealing both with Burman and other ethnic groups. It focuses upon the relations between anthropology and other disciplines, and upon the relationship of such work to the development of anthropological theory. It tries to show how anthropology has contributed to an overall understanding of Burma as a field of study and, conversely, how work on Burma has influenced the development of anthropology as a subject. It also tries to relate the way in which anthropology helps place Burma in the broader context of Southeast Asia.

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