Why should the church be concerned about cultures? Louis J. Luzbetak began to answer
this question twenty-five years ago with the publication of The Church and Cultures: An …

Too often, anthropological accounts of ritual leave readers with the impression that
everything goes smoothly, that rituals are" meaningful events." But what happens when …

Exploring whether the widespread activity of sitting next to a grave and talking to a deceased
person is a religious act forms the basis of this book, and the author argues that it is probably …

Anthropology of Religion: The Basics is an accessible and engaging introductory text
organized around key issues that all anthropologists of religion face. This book uses a wide …

Anthropology and Mission have had a long and stormy history to the present era.
Nevertheless, anthropologists have used ethnographic data compiled by missionaries to …

Examines religious practices from an anthropological perspectiveReligions in Practice, 6/e,
offers an issues-oriented perspective on everyday religious behaviors–prayer, sacrifice …

The split between the Gospel and culture is without doubt the drama of our time," wrote Paul
VI in 1975. Since that time there has been an increasingly urgent awareness that …

This article surveys the literature that constitutes the newly emergent anthropology of
Christianity. Arguing that the development of this sub‐discipline was impeded until recently …

This article reviews the development of the anthropology of Christianity and considers the
new questions and approaches introduced by the articles in this special issue of Current …

How can the church meaningfully and intelligently engage cultures with Christianity?
Oftentimes, it is not the message but the messenger that provides the greatest stumbling …