Critical failures
Critique in evangelical Christian contexts has usually been seen as a practice in service of finding the universal. However, I examine a number of contexts in which Christian critique seems to produce serial difference. I suggest that this seriality may itself be seen as a basis on which possibility...
| Subtitles: | Symposium: “Towards a Critical Anthropology of Religion” |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
[2018]
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| In: |
Critical research on religion
Year: 2018, Volume: 6, Issue: 1, Pages: 16-20 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
USA
/ Evangelical movement
/ Christianity
/ Criticism
/ Denomination (Religion)
/ Universalism
/ Papua New Guinea
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| IxTheo Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism KBQ North America KBS Australia; Oceania KDA Church denominations KDG Free church |
| Further subjects: | B
anthropology of Christianity
B Melanesia B denominationalism B seriality |
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (Resolving-System) |
| Summary: | Critique in evangelical Christian contexts has usually been seen as a practice in service of finding the universal. However, I examine a number of contexts in which Christian critique seems to produce serial difference. I suggest that this seriality may itself be seen as a basis on which possibility and alternatives can be found, rather than just as serial failures to reach the universal. I briefly compare different events of serial transformations, in the United States as well as in Papua New Guinea, the site of my ethnographic research on denominational difference. |
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| ISSN: | 2050-3040 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Critical research on religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/2050303218757324 |