Christianity, place/space, and anthropology
Thinking Across Recent Research on Evangelical Place-Making
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4372020 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ingie Hovland (0000-0002-2926-6326, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 331-358 |
| Publication date | 2016-07-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0048-721X • E-ISSN: 1096-1151 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0048721x.2016.1143054 |
| OpenAlex | W2287600012 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 30 |
| References cited | 87 |
Place-making is a central activity for Christian groups. Yet the scholarly literature contains little comparative conversation on local Christian theories of place. This article ‘thinks across’ ten ethnographic descriptions of evangelical communities in order to pay attention to what these Christians pay attention to in their everyday place-making. It discusses seven problematics that commonly recur in evangelical place-work (namely linguistic, material, temporal, personhood, translocal, transcendent, and worldly concerns). This analysis nuances current anthropological debates on Protestant materiality, temporality, and personhood. The article argues that a central tenet of evangelicals’ place-making is a simultaneous taking apart and bringing together of faith and place. This results in a simultaneous fusing and ‘unfusing’ of situation and setting, which cannot be labeled either dis-placement or thorough emplacement. More broadly, evangelical place-making provides a modern example of deterritorialization that is different from placeless-ness. It also speaks to the complex interplay between ideals, intentionality, and agency
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy) · Appropriation · Christianity · Conversation · Epistemology · Ethnography · Linguistics · Materiality (auditing) · Narrative · Personhood · Place making · Protestantism · Social science · Sociology · Subjectivity · Temporality · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Philosophy · Religious studies · Religious Tourism and Spaces
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| Unique citing works | 30 |
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| Citations per year | 3,33 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 29 |