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Think Like an Anthropologist by Matthew Engelke
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'Subtle and self-reflexive. . . an excellent overview of the debates and issues that have shaped this hugely influential social science' - GuardianHow does anthropology help us understand who we... -
God's Agents: Biblical Publicity in Contemporary England by Matthew Engelke 9780520280472
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21The British and Foreign Bible Society is one of the most illustrious Christian charities in the United Kingdom. Founded by evangelicals in the early nineteenth century and inspired by developments in... -
A Problem of Presence: Beyond Scripture in an African Church by Matthew Engelke 9780520249042
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21The Friday Masowe apostolics of Zimbabwe refer to themselves as 'the Christians who don't read the Bible.' They claim they do not need the Bible because they receive the Word of God 'live and direct'... -
The Limits of Meaning: Case Studies in the Anthropology of Christianity by Matthew Engelke 9781845455071
RRP: £23.95Booksplease Price: £21.16"Christian theology has given to the human sciences at large hermeneutics as an interpretive science of meaning. This remarkable collection of essays by anthropologists turns a keen hermeneutic... -
An Honest Death: Life's End and Humanist Funerals by Matthew Engelke 9780691280097
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.57A fascinating, behind-the-scenes look at non-religious funerals in contemporary LondonAn Honest Death is an intimate and moving ethnographic account of funerals for people who don't believe in God or... -
The Limits of Meaning: Case Studies in the Anthropology of Christianity Matthew Engelke 9781845451707
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £85.16Too often, anthropological accounts of ritual leave readers with the impression that everything goes smoothly, that rituals are "meaningful events." But what happens when rituals fail, or when they... -
An Honest Death: Life's End and Humanist Funerals by Matthew Engelke 9780691280103
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £66.34A fascinating, behind-the-scenes look at non-religious funerals in contemporary LondonAn Honest Death is an intimate and moving ethnographic account of funerals for people who don't believe in God or... -
The Objects of Evidence: Anthropological Approaches to the Production of Knowledge Matthew Engelke (London School of Economics and Political Science, UK) 9781405192965
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.74Part of The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Special Issue Book Series, the contributors to this volume share the conviction that anthropology can no longer afford to ignore the... -
Midsommar Screenplay Book Ari Aster 9781960078018
Booksplease Price: £51.46The Midsommar Screenplay Book includes an introduction by Park Chan-wook, an essay by anthropologist Matthew Engelke, and illustrated Harga choral primer by vocal artist Jessika Kenney.Book... -
Colonial Lessons - Africans` Education in Southern Rhodesia, 1918-1940 by Carol L. Summers
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £24.14Reveals how the African intelligentsia shaped their own lives under colonial rule. This work shows how mission-educated Africans negotiated new identities for themselves and their communities... -
Women of Fire and Spirit: Faith, History, and Gender in Roho Religion in Western Kenya by Cynthia Hoehler-Fatton 9780195097917
Booksplease Price: £56.00This is the first extensive study of the African Christian Roho religion, or Holy Spirit movement, in Western Kenya. Hoehler-Fatton uses extensive oral histories and life narratives to provide a... -
Life in Language: Mission Feminists and the Emergence of a New Protestant Subject by Ingie Hovland 9780226838298
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £88.55A new anthropology of Protestant feminism, anchored by the language experiments of one Lutheran community. The language of the Bible is a powerful lens through which many Protestants understand... -
The Social Life of Scriptures: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Biblicism by James S. Bielo 9780813546056
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £65.06What do Christians do with the Bible? How do theyuindividually and collectivelyuinteract with the sacred texts? Why does this engagement shift so drastically among and between social, historical,... -
The Privilege of Being Banal: Art, Secularism, and Catholicism in Paris by Elayne Oliphant
Booksplease Price: £26.68France, officially, is a secular nation. Yet Catholicism is undeniably a monumental presence, defining the temporal and spatial rhythms of Paris. At the same time, it often fades into the background... -
The Privilege of Being Banal: Art, Secularism, and Catholicism in Paris by Elayne Oliphant 9780226731124
Booksplease Price: £101.68France, officially, is a secular nation. Yet Catholicism is undeniably a monumental presence, defining the temporal and spatial rhythms of Paris. At the same time, it often fades into the background... -
Reason, Carnival and Honour: An Anthropology of Free Speech by Matei Candea 9780241711255
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.87What does free speech really mean? How does our understanding of it differ around the world? Why does it divide us - and how can we find common ground?What free speech really means is hotly contested... -
The Study of Religion: A Reader John S. Harding (University of Lethbridge, Canada) 9780415495875
RRP: £89.99Booksplease Price: £82.49This collection illustrates the spectrum of ideas that people throughout history have had when considering how to understand and study religion. The editors present a selection of key writings that... -
Materiality by Daniel Miller
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Throughout history and across social and cultural contexts, most systems of belief-whether religious or secular-have ascribed wisdom to those who see reality as that which transcends the merely... -
Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal World Order by James Ferguson
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Both on the continent and off, "Africa" is spoken of in terms of crisis: as a place of failure and seemingly insurmountable problems, as a moral challenge to the international community. What,... -
Aliens & Strangers?: The Struggle for Coherence in the Everyday Lives of Evangelicals by Anna Strhan 9780198724469
Booksplease Price: £117.42In this work of qualitative sociology, Anna Strhan offers an in-depth study of the everyday lives of members of a conservative evangelical Anglican church in London. 'St John's' is a vibrant church,...