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Anthropology and Theology Gods, Icons, and God-talk

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  • Copyright: 2000-09-20
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Summary

Anthropology and Theology is a stimulating exploration of the anthropology of theology, a new field of research that is still being shaped and defined. This follow up to Explorations in Anthropology and Theology includes contributions by theologians, most notably Mark Taylor. Together, the contributing anthropologists and theologians delve into the world of indigenous religious systems, treating them with the respect and attention that is usually given only to the major world religions. The topics covered include American secular rituals, feminist spirituality, the impact of modernization on traditional religions, alternative approaches to the sacred, and implications for field work. Most of the major ethnographic areas of the world are represented, including Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe, the Arctic, and the United States. This collection of works is indispensable as a source that addresses the relevance of theology and anthropology to one another. Recommended for various courses in theology, anthropology of religion, symbolic anthropology, and field work.

Author Biography

Walter Randolph Adams (Ph. D., 1988, Michigan State University) is Research Associate and member of the teaching faculty at the Brown University Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies Emilie Allen is a graduate student in the anthropology department at the University of California, Los Angeles Fr. David S. Baronti is currently a Ph.D. candidate in linguistic anthropology at the University of California, Davis Mary Douglas (Ph.D., 1951, Oxford University) wrote major works on symbolic anthropology. She has conducted extensive fieldwork in Africa James W. Dow (Ph.D., Brandeis University) is Professor of Anthropology at Oakland University Stephen D. Glazier is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Nebraska M. Jean Heriot (Ph.D., 1989, University of California, Berkeley) is an adjunct lecturer in the Department of Religious Studies at Santa Clara University. Concurrently, she is pursuing a Master of Divinity degree at Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley James F. Hopgood (Ph.D., 1976, University of Kansas) is Professor of Anthropology and department chair at Northern Kentucky University Rev. Dr. Robert Davis Hughes, III is an Episcopalian priest and Professor of Systemic Theology at the School of Theology at the University of the South, Sewanee, TN William Jankowiak (Ph.D., 1986, University of California, Santa Barbara) is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Philip Kilbride (Ph.D., 1970, University of Missouri) is Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania and is the Mary Hale Chase Chair in the Social Sciences, Social Work, and Social Research Morton Klass (Ph.D., 1959, Columbia University) is Professor of Anthropology at Barnard College, Columbia University Kathleen Malone O'Connor is currently a lecturer at the University of California, Davis R. Jon McGee (Ph.D., 1983, Rice University) is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Southwest Texas State University, in San Marcos Olugbemi Moloye (Ph.D., 1985, University of Massachusetts) is a member of the Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice department at the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University in Tallahassee Marc S. Mullinax is an assistant professor of religion at Iona College in New Rochelle, New York, and a Protestant minister Robert J. Priest (Ph.D., 1983, University of California, Berkeley) is Associate Professor of Intercultural Studies at Columbia International University in Columbia, South Carolina Frank A. Salamone (Ph.D., 1973, SUNY-Buffalo) is Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at Iona College, New Rochelle, New York Mark Kline Taylor is Associate Professor of Theology and Culture at Princeton Theological Seminary. He is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA). He was co-founder of AGAPE: A Neighborhood Victim's Assistance Program Edith L.B. Turner (M.A., 1980, University of Virginia) has been a member of the faculty of the department of anthropology at the University of Virginia since 1984

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures
xiii
Preface xv
Walter Randolph Adams
Preface to Explorations in Anthropology and Theology xvii
Frank A. Salamone
Introducing This Volume
1(32)
Toward an Anthropology of Theology
1(6)
The Papers: Integrating Themes
7(20)
Organization of the Volume
27(3)
Notes
30(3)
Walter Randolph Adams
``Spirit'' in the Researching of Cultural Worlds: On Theology's Contributions to Anthropology
33(14)
Reconceiving ``Theology'' for Anthropology
35(5)
Theology in Dialogue with Anthropological ``Understanding''
40(2)
Theology in Dialogue with Anthropology's ``Advocacy''
42(3)
Notes
45(2)
Mark Taylor
Beginning a Theology of Anthropology: Theological Reflections on Victor Turner's Last Work
47(12)
A Theological View of the Relationship Between the Disciplines
48(3)
What Theologians Can Learn From Anthropology
51(2)
What Theologians Might Wish to Say to Anthropologists
53(1)
Possible Theological Significance --- Turner as a Test Case
54(3)
Notes
57(2)
Robert D. Hughes, III
Christian Theology, Sin and Anthropology
59(18)
Notes
74(3)
Robert J. Priest
Crossing the Great Divide: What Anthropologists Might Learn From Theology
77(8)
Notes
84(1)
The Social Location of Sacred Knowledge
85(30)
The Imagination
87(3)
The Three Levels of Thought
90(25)
The A-Level: The Utter Transcendence of God
91(1)
The B-Level: The Role of the Imagination
92(1)
The C-Level: The Infinite Variety of the Partial and the Mistaken i.e., the Mythical
92(2)
Myths and Stories
94(1)
To Narrate is Human, and Divine
95(6)
Anthropomorphism
101(7)
Mary as the Feminine Mask of God
108(2)
Conclusion: Putting the Physical Back into the Metaphysical
110(3)
Notes
113(2)
Mark S. Mullinax
Feminist Spirituality, Theology and Anthropology
115(22)
The Socio-cultural Characteristics of the the Feminist Spirituality Movement
116(3)
New Theological Insights
119(5)
Ritual Practice
124(3)
The Essentialist Views of Feminist Spirituality
127(2)
The Irony of Anthropological Critique
129(3)
Notes
132(5)
M. Jean Hariot
Theology and the Anthropological Study of Spirit Events in an Inupiat Village
137(26)
Caveats in the Anthropological Study of Indigenous Religions
142(1)
The Village
143(8)
The Villagers' Working Conception of Spirituality Clues to Inupiat Theology?
144(3)
The Whale and Eagle Spirits
147(1)
The Whale Spirit
147(2)
The Eagle Spirit
149(2)
The Soul or Spirit
151(4)
The Spirit at Death
152(1)
Reincarnating Souls
152(3)
The Spirit Helpers of the Healers
155(3)
Spirit Figures Experienced by Inupiat Christians
158(1)
Changes in Christian Theology, and Christian Apologies
159(2)
Notes
161(2)
Edith Turner
Theoretical Reflections on the Chagnon-Salesian Controversy
163(26)
Introduction
163(3)
The Issues
166(11)
Reflections
177(3)
Conclusion
180(4)
Notes
184(5)
Frank A. Salamone
The Theology of Change: Evangelical Protestantism and the Collapse of Native Religion in a Peasant Area of Mexico
189(14)
Protestant Theology and Economics in Latin America
189(2)
Theories Explaining the Rise of Evangelical Protestantism in Latin America
191(2)
The Spread of Protestantism Within the Eastern Sierra of Hidalgo
193(6)
San Nicolas
195(1)
Santa Monica
196(2)
San Pablo El Grande
198(1)
Discussion
199(1)
Notes
200(3)
James A. Dow
Musings From the Field: Miters, Midwives and Maya Myths
203(32)
Pondering the Place of the Heroic in K'iche Culture
203(3)
Children of Guatemala: Holy Innocents
206(4)
Sebastiana is Mrs. Lent
210(3)
In Today's Guatemala, Where is the Prototypical Maya
213(20)
Notes
233(2)
David S. Baronti
Structural Adjustment Program (SAP) and the Professionalization of Theology
235(16)
Introduction
235(2)
Survey of Theoretical Comments
237(2)
Independent Churches in Yorubaland
239(4)
The Yoruba Traditional Religion
243(2)
Liturgical Convergence of the Yoruba and Independent Christian Religion
245(3)
Nigerian Economy and Spiritual Consultancy
248(3)
Olugbemi Moloye
African Polygamy and Its Theological Lessons for America
251(22)
The Problem: An Anthropological - Theological Perspective
251(6)
Man-Sharing: An Ethnographic Interview
257(6)
Inculturation Theology
263(5)
Conclusion
268(3)
Notes
271(2)
Philip Kilbride
African-American Muslim Foodways: Nutritional Healing and the Construction of Identity
273(20)
Notes
288(5)
Kathleen Malone O'Connor
Adoring the Father: Religion and Charisma in an American Polygamous Community
293(24)
Introduction
293(2)
Angel Park: The Religious Community
295(3)
Mormon Theology --- Christianity and Honoring Thy Father
298(2)
Honoring of Fathers and Competing With Fathers
300(2)
Familism: Competing With a Father's Reputation
302(3)
The Charismatic Father: Imaging the Polygamous Family
305(3)
Love, Ambivalence and Hostility: Resolving the Father
308(4)
Conclusion
312(1)
Notes
313(4)
William Jankowiak
Emilie Allen
Natural Modeling in Lacandon Maya Mythology
317(20)
Introduction
317(1)
Natural Modeling in Maya Mythology
318(4)
Natural Modeling Among the Lacandon Maya?
322(2)
Environmental Awareness in Lacandon Life
324(1)
The Milpa Cycle in Lacandon Mythology
325(7)
Discussion
332(3)
Conclusion
335(1)
Notes
335(2)
R. Jon McGee
``Back Home in Indiana:'' The Semiotics of Pilgrimage and Belief in Honor of an American Icon
337(26)
Introduction
337(2)
James Dean
339(3)
Genesis of the Dean Image / Icon and Deaner Theology
342(4)
Deaner Theology
343(3)
Deaners: An Iconic Movement
346(1)
Fairmount's Museum Days and Deaner Pilgrimage
347(2)
Discussion
349(2)
Semiotics and Pilgrimage
351(1)
Transformation
351(3)
Physical Transformation
352(1)
Temporal Transformation
352(1)
Existential Quest
352(1)
Tactile Transformation / ``in Touch''
353(1)
Journey Completion
353(1)
Communitas
354(1)
Coding and Decoding --- Semiotics Extended
354(3)
Conclusion
357(1)
Notes
358(5)
James F. Hopgood
Processes and Dynamics of Community Fission and Maintenance: An Ojibway Case
363(28)
Introduction
363(5)
External Conditions
368(4)
The Community's Response
372(4)
Analysis
376(9)
Conclusion
385(2)
Notes
387(4)
Walter Randolph Adams
Sacraments and Society: An Anthropologist Asks, What Women Could Be Doing in the Church?
391(16)
The Missing Place for Women in a Hierarchical Community
394(3)
Hierarchy and Sect
397(6)
Doctrine as a Way of Life
403(2)
Women as Caring, Compassionate, Constructive, Rational Beings
405(1)
Notes
406(1)
Mary Douglas
Anthropology and Theology: The Legacy of a Link
407(18)
Theologians Occidental and Accidental
410(3)
The Sacred and the Secular
413(2)
Belief and the Social Scientists
415(1)
The Theological Imagination
416(1)
Is Theology a Universal
417(1)
Institutional Structures
418(1)
Unintended Rivalries
419(1)
Concluding Unscientific Postscript
420(5)
Stephen D. Glazier
Bibliography 425(46)
Index 471
About the Contributors 463

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