Here are the review essays I've commissioned for the Marginalia Review of Books over the past year or so - focusing especially on work in the anthropology of Christianity:
"A virtuous village, a pure voice: The moralization of semiotic form in the Christian Pacific" - Webb Keane on Courtney Handman's Critical Christianity: Translation and Denominational Conflict in Papua New Guinea and Nicholas Harkness' Songs of Seoul: An Ethnography of Voice and Voicing in Christian South Korea
"Whose God was slain? Anthropology and the diversity of world Christianity" - Jason Bruner on Timothy Larsen's The Slain God: Anthropology and the Christian Faith
"Onward Christian strangers" - Omri Elisha on Anna Strhan's Aliens and Strangers? The Struggle for Coherence in the Everyday Lives of Evangelicals
"Faith in motion: Techniques and technologies of prayer in the Appalachians and beyond" - Bruno Reinhardt on Anderson Blanton's Hittin' the Prayer Bones: Materiality of Spirit in the Pentecostal South
"La dolce vita: Desires and despairs of Latin American migrants in Rome" - Hillary Kaell on Valentina Napolitano's Migrant Hearts and the Atlantic Return: Transnationalism and the Roman Catholic Church
"Of witches and the Holy Spirit: Christian film production in Ghana" - Katrien Pype on Birgit Meyer's Sensational Movies: Video, Vision, and Christianity in Ghana
"Spirit and literacy, prophecy and modernity in a South African church" - Kevin Ward on Joel Cabrita's Text and Authority in the South African Nazaretha Church
"The genealogy of ethical life" - Jon Bialecki on Webb Keane's Ethical Life: Its Natural and Social Histories
"A virtuous village, a pure voice: The moralization of semiotic form in the Christian Pacific" - Webb Keane on Courtney Handman's Critical Christianity: Translation and Denominational Conflict in Papua New Guinea and Nicholas Harkness' Songs of Seoul: An Ethnography of Voice and Voicing in Christian South Korea
"Whose God was slain? Anthropology and the diversity of world Christianity" - Jason Bruner on Timothy Larsen's The Slain God: Anthropology and the Christian Faith
"Onward Christian strangers" - Omri Elisha on Anna Strhan's Aliens and Strangers? The Struggle for Coherence in the Everyday Lives of Evangelicals
"Faith in motion: Techniques and technologies of prayer in the Appalachians and beyond" - Bruno Reinhardt on Anderson Blanton's Hittin' the Prayer Bones: Materiality of Spirit in the Pentecostal South
"La dolce vita: Desires and despairs of Latin American migrants in Rome" - Hillary Kaell on Valentina Napolitano's Migrant Hearts and the Atlantic Return: Transnationalism and the Roman Catholic Church
"Of witches and the Holy Spirit: Christian film production in Ghana" - Katrien Pype on Birgit Meyer's Sensational Movies: Video, Vision, and Christianity in Ghana
"Spirit and literacy, prophecy and modernity in a South African church" - Kevin Ward on Joel Cabrita's Text and Authority in the South African Nazaretha Church
"The genealogy of ethical life" - Jon Bialecki on Webb Keane's Ethical Life: Its Natural and Social Histories
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