Theology and the Anthropology of Christian Life
Seiten
2020
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-884504-1 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-884504-1 (ISBN)
How can we understand the role of religion in human experience and social life? This book argues that anthropology and theology can work together to answer this question. Robbins provides clear accounts of contemporary anthropological theory and theological debates around issues such as atonement, sin, and the potentials and limits of human action.
Anthropological theory can radically transform our understanding of human experience and offer theologians an introduction to the interdisciplinary nature between anthropology and Christianity.
Both sociocultural anthropology and theology have made fundamental contributions to our understanding of human experience and the place of humanity in the world. But can these two disciplines, despite the radical differences that separate them, work together to transform their thinking on these topics? Robbins argues that they can. To make this point, he draws on key theological discussions of atonement, eschatology, interruption, passivity, and judgement to rethink important anthropological debates about such topics as ethical life, radical change, the ways people live in time, agency, gift giving, and the nature of humanity. The result is both a major reconsideration of important aspects of anthropological theory through theological categories and a series of careful readings of influential theologians such as Moltmann, Pannenberg, Jüngel, and Dalferth informed by rich ethnographic accounts of the lives of Christians from around the world. In conclusion, Robbins draws on contemporary discussions of secularism to interrogate the secular foundations of anthropology and suggests that the differences between anthropology and theology surrounding this topic can provide a foundation for transformative dialogue between them, rather than being an obstacle to it. Written as a work of interdisciplinary anthropological theorizing, this book also offers theologians an introduction to some of the most important ground covered by burgeoning field of the anthropology of Christianity while guiding anthropologists into core areas of theological discussion. Although theoretically ambitious, the book is clearly argued throughout and written to be accessible to all readers in the social sciences, theology, and religious studies interested in the place of religion in social life and human experience.
Anthropological theory can radically transform our understanding of human experience and offer theologians an introduction to the interdisciplinary nature between anthropology and Christianity.
Both sociocultural anthropology and theology have made fundamental contributions to our understanding of human experience and the place of humanity in the world. But can these two disciplines, despite the radical differences that separate them, work together to transform their thinking on these topics? Robbins argues that they can. To make this point, he draws on key theological discussions of atonement, eschatology, interruption, passivity, and judgement to rethink important anthropological debates about such topics as ethical life, radical change, the ways people live in time, agency, gift giving, and the nature of humanity. The result is both a major reconsideration of important aspects of anthropological theory through theological categories and a series of careful readings of influential theologians such as Moltmann, Pannenberg, Jüngel, and Dalferth informed by rich ethnographic accounts of the lives of Christians from around the world. In conclusion, Robbins draws on contemporary discussions of secularism to interrogate the secular foundations of anthropology and suggests that the differences between anthropology and theology surrounding this topic can provide a foundation for transformative dialogue between them, rather than being an obstacle to it. Written as a work of interdisciplinary anthropological theorizing, this book also offers theologians an introduction to some of the most important ground covered by burgeoning field of the anthropology of Christianity while guiding anthropologists into core areas of theological discussion. Although theoretically ambitious, the book is clearly argued throughout and written to be accessible to all readers in the social sciences, theology, and religious studies interested in the place of religion in social life and human experience.
Joel Robbins, Sigrid Rausing Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge, UK
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1: From Discontinuity to Interruption
2: Sin, Atonement, and Christian Ways of Life
3: The Prosperity Gospel, Humanity, and the Problem of Judgment
4: On Lived Eschatology
5: Passivity, Agency, the Gift, and God
6: Anthropology, the Secular, and Transformative Dialogue
References
Erscheinungsdatum | 28.09.2020 |
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Verlagsort | Oxford |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 144 x 223 mm |
Gewicht | 388 g |
Themenwelt | Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-884504-9 / 0198845049 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-884504-1 / 9780198845041 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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