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Zusatztext filled with substantive insights not only into what theologians stand to gain from anthropology, but also -- and especially -- how theology can benefit anthropology, rendering this an important volume for anthropologists and theologians alike. Informationen zum Autor Derrick Lemons is an Assistant Professor of Religion at the University of Georgia. Klappentext An edited collection focusing on the theological history of anthropology. It discusses deeply-held theological assumptions that humans make about the nature of reality and illustrates how these assumptions manifest themselves in society. Zusammenfassung An edited collection focusing on the theological history of anthropology. It discusses deeply-held theological assumptions that humans make about the nature of reality and illustrates how these assumptions manifest themselves in society. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Contributors Introduction: Theologically Engaged Anthropology 1: J. Derrick Lemons: New Insights from an Old Dialog Partner 2: Brian M. Howell: Which Theology for Anthropology? Types of Theology for Anthropological Engagement 3: Timothy Larsen and Daniel J. King: The Dependence of Sociocultural Anthropology on Theological Anthropology 4: Khaled Furani: Theology Revealing the Hajibs of Anthropology 5: Paul Kollman: What Can Theology Contribute to Cultural Anthropology? 6: Timothy Jenkins: Theology's Contribution to Anthropological Understanding in T. M. Luhrmann's When God Talks Back 7: Alister E. McGrath: Narratives of Significance: Reflections on the Engagement of Anthropology and Christian Theology 8: James S. Bielo: An Anthropologist Is Listening: A Reply to Ethnographic Theology 9: Jon Bialecki: Anthropology, Theology, and the Problem of Incommensurability 10: Nicholas Adams: Superstition and Enlightenment: Engagements Between Theology and Anthropology 11: Douglas J. Davies: Anthropology and Theology: Fugues of Thought and Action 12: Michael A. Rynkiewich: Athens Engaging Jerusalem 13: Joel Robbins: World Christianity and the Reorganization of Disciplines: On the Emerging Dialogue between Anthropology and Theology 14: Fenella Cannell: Latter-Day Saints and the Problem of Theology 15: Naomi Haynes: Theology on the Ground 16: Francis X. Clooney, SJ: Comparative Theology: Writing Between Worlds of Meaning 17: Martyn Percy: Passionate Coolness: Exploring Mood and Character in a Local Rural Anglican Church 18: Joseph Webster: The Exclusive Brethren "Doctrine of Separation": An Anthropology of Theology 19: Don Seeman: Divinity Inhabits the Social: Ethnography in a Phenomenological Key 20: Sarah Coakely and Joel Robbins: Anthropological and Theological Responses to Theologically Engaged Anthropology ...