Reading with anthropology : exhibiting aspects of New Testament religion /

Lawrence, Louise Joy, 1975-

Reading with anthropology : exhibiting aspects of New Testament religion / - Bletchley, Milton Keynes ; Waynesboro, Ga. : Paternoster, ©2005. - xix, 212 Pages ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-212).

Anthropology and biblical studies: some associations and collaborations -- Reading with anthropology: a reductive pursuit? -- 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 -- Exhibit 1. Exhibit 2. Exhibit 3. Exhibit 4.

1842273752 (pbk.) 9781842273753 (pbk.)


Bible.--New Testament--Social scientific criticism.


Anthropology of religion.

BS2361.3 / .L39 2005

225.6 L416R