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The Slain God

Timothy Larsen

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Description for The Slain God Paperback. This book is a history of the relationship between the discipline of anthropology and the Christian faith. It explores how leading anthropologists have come to believe that ethnographic findings and evidence made Christianity no longer tenable. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HRCM; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
Throughout its entire history, the discipline of anthropology has been perceived as undermining, or even discrediting, Christian faith. Many of its most prominent theorists have been agnostics who assumed that ethnographic findings and theories had discredited religious beliefs. E. B. Tylor, the founder of the discipline in Britain, lost his faith through studying anthropology. James Frazer saw the material that he presented in his highly influential work, The Golden Bough, as demonstrating that Christian thought was based on the erroneous thought patterns of 'savages.' On the other hand, some of the most eminent anthropologists have been Christians, including E. E. ... Read more

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Publisher

Oxford University Press United Kingdom

Number of pages

272

Format

Paperback

Publication date

2016

Condition

New

Weight

341g

Number of Pages

272

Place of Publication

Oxford, United Kingdom

ISBN

9780198757429

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V9780198757429

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About Timothy Larsen

Timothy Larsen is McManis Professor of Christian Thought, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Anthropological Institute. He has been a Visiting Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge, and some of the research for this volume was undertaken while a Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford. His previous monographs published by Oxford ... Read more

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This is a startling book. Many anthropologists do not realize how deeply religious many of the great anthropologists of religion have been. The Slain God raises the question of how faith shapes what the anthropologist sees, and it will change the way the reader thinks about the answer.
Tanya Luhrmann, Watkins University Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University
Larsen's ... Read morebook is beautifully written and based on the most patient scrutiny of every scrap of evidence. It provides an authoritative account of some of anthropology's most influential practitioners.
David Martin, London School of Economics
This well-written and finely research book ... should be widely discussed in a variety of circles concerned with anthropology, religious studies, theology and the history of religion
Journal of Ecclesiastical History
a welcome contribution to the history of anthropology ... Larsen's narrative and sharp observations skilfully weave together authors' biographical experiences with their theoretical and ethnographic findings ... I hope this book will break for good certain unspoken taboos in the discipline that one cannot be at the same time a serious anthropologist and a practising 'believer'.
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
One of the many virtues of Larsen's study is its revealing of the 'all too human' character of the scholarship by the anthropologists he examines.
Christian Smith, First Things
Readers interested in continuing debates over faith, science and secularism will find much of value in this very important book. The further you get into the book, the more astonished you are that no predecessor has written such a full-length study of this critically important topic.
Philip Jenkins, Patheos
Witty, penetrating, following the evidence where it leads, this book is a great delight.
John Wilson, Book of the Year 2014, Books and Culture
Larsen's book is clearly and delightfully written. It is, he says, the first book-length study of the subject, and it is as welcome as it is overdue
Peter J. Leithart
As in his earlier work, Larsen disrupts a teleological vision of religion condemned to disappear before the forces of progress and modernity. He is to be congratulated for challenging this narrative head-on and confronting what amounts to anti-religious bias in the human sciences
Journal of Theological Studies
In his latest book, The Slain God, Timothy Larsen provides a compelling account of the complex relationship between anthropology and the Christian faith . . . His is the first book-length study of the relationship between anthropology and Christianity and as such is of interest to anyone who wishes to understand this relationship better. The book is also particularly timely in view of the recent resurgence of interest in these issues in the anthropology of Christianity
Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford
This book will be greeted as something of a bombshell amongst anthropologists of religion...a highly original book that should be with us for a long time to come.
Joel Robbins, Sigrid Rausing Professor of Social Anthropology, Cambridge University
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