![]() ![]() 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunities Reconciliation Act and the English 1834 New Poor Law-two episodes in which existing welfare regimes were overturned by market-driven ones. ![]() Confronted by people claiming that radical Christian change has occurred in their lives, anthropologists become suspicious and often explain away th.read more read lessĪbstract: To understand the rise of market fundamentalism from the margins of influence to mainstream hegemony, we compare the U.S. ![]() This emphasis becomes problematic where Christianity is concerned, because many kinds of Christianity stress radical change and expect it to occur. Most anthropological theories emphasize cultural continuity as opposed to discontinuity and change. While it is possible to locate the cause in part in the culture of anthropology, with its emphasis on difference, problems also exist at the theoretical level. A close reading of the Comaroffs’ Of Revelation and Revolution illustrates the ways in which anthropologists sideline Christianity and leads to a discussion of reasons the anthropology of Christianity has languished. When anthropologists study Christians, they do not see themselves as contributing to a broad comparative enterprise in the way those studying other world religions do. ![]() Abstract: To this point, the anthropology of Christianity has largely failed to develop. ![]()
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