Exhibiting Aspects of New Testament Religion. The social science of anthropology has been used in recent years to open up fascinating new ways of understanding biblical texts.
In this fresh and stimulating study, Louise Lawrence argues that anthropology and theology need not be enemies but can become constructive dialogue partners in the search to understand the Bible better.

Reading with Anthropology will be of equal interest to biblical scholars seeking a way in to the use of anthropology in their discipline and to anthropologists wishing to better appreciate biblical cultures.

Contents:

Introduction

Reading with Anthropology

Anthropology and Biblical Studies: Some Associations and Collaborations

Reading with Anthropology: A Reductive Pursuit?

Exhibiting Aspects of Scriptural Religion

Reading with Religious Practitioners: Shamans and Shaman Healers

Reading with Tricksters: Irony, Mystery and John’s Jesus

Reading with ‘Rituals of Resistance’: Willing Deaths and Masculinity

Reading with Women’s Religions: Procreation, Suffering and the Domestication of Religion

Reading with Poetry: Modesty, Love and Desire

Reading with Communities of Goods: Morals, Money and Virtuoso Religion

Reading with Food and Memory: Consuming at Corinth

Exiting an Exhibition

• View other titles by Louise J Lawrence
• Send us your review of Reading With Anthropology

ISBN: 9781842273753
Catalogue code: N/A
Publisher: PATERNOSTER PRESS - published 15/12/2005
Format: Paperback