2019/07/23 by Eloise Meneses · 2 citations
Social Sciences · #Anthropological Studies and Insights #Religion and Society Interactions #Religion, Society, and Development
paper · doi:10.1080/00141844.2019.1641126
openalex publication_date 2019/07/23 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/04/22
Anthropology has rejected religiously based thought in its analysis from its inception. Now, due to developments in the anthropology of Christianity, ‘theologically engaged anthropology’ is inviting mutually productive interdisciplinary dialogue between anthropology and theology. What might anthropology look like, going forward, if the religious views of ethnographers were to be included in the production of ethnographies? Those in reflexive ethnography have already acknowledged that ethnographers’ cultural backgrounds enter into representations of other cultures, and those in ‘the ontological turn’ are challenging anthropology’s ontological assumptions through the serious consideration of their interlocutors’ views. I suggest that there is value for the discipline in permitting discourses of ethnography and analysis that reflect the multiple, sometimes religiously-based, ontologies of ethnographers as well.