Being-In-Christ and Putting Death in Its Place: An Anthropologist's Account of Christian Performance in Spanish American and the American South - Couverture rigide

Richardson, Miles

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 080712849X ISBN 13 : 9780807128497

Editeur : Louisiana State University Press, 2003

Synopsis

In this bracingly original anthropological study, Miles Richardson uses forty years of empirical research to examine the ways Christians address the uniquely human question of death. Rooted in the author's personal story of why he became an anthropologist, the book illuminates how two groups, Catholics in Spanish America and Baptists in the American South, create "being-in-Christ" and thereby "put death in its place." Richardson's striking scholarly thrust joins four-field anthropology (biological, cultural, archaeological, and linguistic) and a rigorous evolutionary framework to a post-modern dialogic, reflexive stance. s lively immediate method draws us into a creative dialogue with his text and into solidarity with the worshipers inside two distinctly rendered composite settings; the dark "Nueva Esperanza" iglesia, where Christ dwells in sight, touch, and taste; and the brightly lit "Mt. Hope" church, where the Lord is experienced in the Word of sermon and song. We journey across the Spanish American landscape to holy places where the immanent Christ works miracles and Good Friday signifies his sacrificial suffering, while in the American South pilgrimages lead to antebellum homes, and at sunrise on Easter Sunday, the choir sings of glorious resurrection and death finds its place in the salvation message of a risen Christ. General readers, anthropologists, and students of Latin American and southern culture will be enthralled by Richardson's combination of hard-won ethnographic detail and moving religious insight that speaks to the question of what to do about death within the construct of human evolution.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Miles Richardson, Doris Z. Stone Professor in Latin American Studies at Louisiana State University, is the author or editor of several previous books, including Cry Lonesome and Other Accounts of the Anthropologist's Project and The Burden of Being Civilized.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Louisiana State University Press
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 080712849X
• ISBN 13: 9780807128497
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 440
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• Personne responsable: non disponible