'The mind of Christ': financial success, born-again personhood, and the anthropology of Christianity
In this article, I contribute to the emerging project of the anthropology of Christianity by exploring the subject of born-again personhood. As a nascent field of inquiry, the anthropology of Christianity must delimit what theoretical opportunities exist for comparative research. I argue that a focu...
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| 语言: | English |
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Routledge
2007
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Ethnos
Year: 2007, 卷: 72, 发布: 3, Pages: 316-338 |
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B 文化人类学 B 基督新教 B 基督教 B Vereinigte Staaten 基督教 基督新教 文化人类学 |
| 总结: | In this article, I contribute to the emerging project of the anthropology of Christianity by exploring the subject of born-again personhood. As a nascent field of inquiry, the anthropology of Christianity must delimit what theoretical opportunities exist for comparative research. I argue that a focus on personhood offers a promising series of questions toward this end. To illustrate this claim, I use the case study of one Evangelical Sunday school teacher - Rick Betcher - and his life as a 'Christian businessman.' Anthropologists and other scholars have shown great interest in how matters of money figure in the culture of Protestantism. Using Rick's self-designed Sunday school class, The Mind of Christ, I argue that conceptions of personal financial success among born-again Christians are structured by the prevailing model of born-again personhood - the New Mind. (Ethnos/NIAS) |
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| ISSN: | 0014-1844 |
| Contains: | In: Ethnos
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