Drawing on two years of ethnographic research, Naomi Haynes explores Pentecostal Christianity in the kind of community where it often flourishes: a densely populated neighborhood in the heart of an extraction economy. On the Zambian Copperbelt, Pentecostal adherence embeds believers in relationships that help them to “move” and progress in life. These efforts give Copperbelt Pentecostalism its particular loc ...
“I have seen yesterday. I know tomorrow.” This inscription in Tutankhamun’s tomb summarizes <I>The Fifth Beginning</I>. Here, archaeologist Robert L. Kelly explains how the study of our cultural past can predict the future of humanity.<BR />  <BR /> In an eminently readable style, Kelly identifies four key pivot points in the six-million-year history of human development: th ...
American environmentalism historically has been associated with the interests of white elites. Yet religious leaders in the twenty-first century have helped instill concern about the earth among groups diverse in religion, race, ethnicity, and class. How did that happen and what are the implications? Building on scholarship that provides theological and ethical resources to support the “greening” of religion, <I>God and ...
Aimed at a wide audience of readers, <I>The Anthropology of Catholicism</I> is the first companion guide to this burgeoning field within the anthropology of Christianity. Bringing to light Catholicism’s long but comparatively ignored presence within the discipline of anthropology, the book introduces readers to key studies in the field, as well as to current analyses on the present and possible futures of Catholicism global ...
Long-haul trucks have been described as sweatshops on wheels. The typical long-haul trucker works the equivalent of two full-time jobs, often for little more than minimum wage. But it wasn’t always this way. Trucking used to be one of the best working-class jobs in the United States.  <BR /><BR /><I>The Big Rig</I> explains how this massive degradation in the quality of work has occurr ...
For many people, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia evokes images of deserts, camels, and oil, along with rich sheikh in white robes, oppressed women in black veils, and terrorists. But when Loring Danforth traveled through the country in 2012, he found a world much more complex and inspiring than he could have ever imagined.<BR />  <BR /> With vivid descriptions and moving personal narratives, Danforth takes us across the Kingdom, ...
Religion is often viewed as a universally ancient element of the human inheritance, but in the Western Himalayas the community of Himachal Pradesh discovered its religion only after India became an independent secular state. Based on extensive ethnographic and archival work, <I>Becoming </I><I>Religious </I><I>in </I><I>a </I><I>Secular </I>& ...
Why do religion and science often appear in conflict in America’s public sphere? In <I>Seeking Good Debate</I>, Michael S. Evans examines the results from the first-ever study to combine large-scale empirical analysis of some of our foremost religion and science debates with in-depth research into what Americans actually want in the public sphere. The surprising finding is that apparent conflicts involving religion ...
Between 1988 and 2013, the Chinese city of Zouping transformed from an impoverished town of 30,000 people to a bustling city of over 300,000, complete with factories, high rises, parks, shopping malls, and all the infrastructure of a wealthy East Asian city. <I>From</I><I>V</I><I>illage to</I><I>City</I> paints a vivid portrait of the rapid changes in Zouping and its environs and in the lives of th ...
