Anthropology’s Origins, Christianity, and a Perspective from Africa

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ID21253430
AuthorsJim Harries (0000-0001-7274-4680, William Carey University, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume1
Issue1
Publication date2017-07-07
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueOKH Journal Anthropological Ethnography and Analysis Through the Eyes of Christian Faith (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2573-4180 • E-ISSN: 2573-4180
PublisherEastern University (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.18251/okh.v1i1.3
OpenAlexW2730991732
LanguageEN
References cited12

This article addresses the relationship between Christianity and anthropology from a perspective of the need of the church for anthropologists, and of the lack of a solid epistemological foundation for modern anthropology. Classical anthropology has been exposed as a 'broken system' by postmodern anthropologists, but buried assumptions from the classical model continue to run by faith on prior momentum. A re-integration of anthropology into a Christian theological paradigm is proposed as the means of honestly, truthfully, and genuinely, providing a rootedness and foundation for anthropology's future development. Work on the embodiment of language helps to provide means for opening a legitimate space between objectivity and subjectivity in this article

Applied anthropology · Archaeology · Christianity · Epistemology · Evangelism · Faith · Postmodernism · Sociocultural anthropology · Sociology · Subjectivity · African cultural and philosophical studies · Anthropology · Christian Theology and Mission · History · Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies · Philosophy · Religious studies

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