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The slain God : Anthropologist and the Christian faith
- Title
- The slain God : Anthropologist and the Christian faith / Timothy Larsen.
- Author
- Larsen, Timothy, 1967-
- Publication
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
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Details
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- JFD 14-4459
- ISBN
- 9780199657872
- 0199657874
- OCLC
- 869726273
- Author
- Larsen, Timothy, 1967-
- Title
- The slain God : Anthropologist and the Christian faith / Timothy Larsen.
- Imprint
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Description
- 256 p. ; 23 cm
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Summary
- 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. Evans-Pritchard, Mary Douglas, Victor Turner, and Edith Turner. Moreover, they openly presented articulate reasons for how their religious convictions cohered with their professional work.0Despite being a major site of friction between faith and modern thought, the relationship between anthropology and Christianity has never before been the subject of a book-length study. In this groundbreaking work, Timothy Larsen examines the point where doubt and faith collide with anthropological theory and evidence.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 14-4459