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Christian moderns
This is the first in a series of posts on Webb Keane’s Christian Moderns: Freedom and Fetish in the Mission Encounter.—ed. For the context of The Immanent Frame, I’d like to draw out two themes in...
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After purification
Webb Keane’s central claim in Christian Moderns, if I understand correctly, is that this modern Euro-American culture is characterized by a certain “semiotic ideology” that is, in turn, embedded in a...
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Speech and space
Like Webb Keane, I have come to see some metapragmatic elements in evangelical culture as bringing about some important and related consequences: projects of translation that make religiosity into a...
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An absence of belief?
First, a disclosure: this book and I go way back. When it comes to Webb Keane’s scholarship, I’m what the marketing experts would call an early adopter. I first met Professor Keane—or, rather, stepped...
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Colonialism and conflict
In preparing my remarks on Webb Keane’s Christian Moderns, I found myself somewhat disadvantaged by the fact that I am trained neither as an anthropologist nor as a specialist in Indonesia. But it is...
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No view from nowhere
The commentaries on Christian Moderns posted over the last few weeks have been both generous and insightful. A brief post can only touch on some of the more salient issues they raise. I’ll start with a...
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Reconstructing belief
I would like to continue the discussion of modernity and the problem of belief, which, like Danilyn Rutherford, I do not regard as a no-fly zone. The gist of this fine book recounts a story of...
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Giving up the Holy Ghost
Webb Keane’s Christian Moderns is the kind of work that leaves one’s head spinning because it manages to bring so many analytic categories and theoretical literatures into conversation with each other....
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Christian moderns
This is the first in a series of posts on Webb Keane’s Christian Moderns: Freedom and Fetish in the Mission Encounter.—ed. For the context of The Immanent Frame, I’d like to draw out two themes in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
After purification
Webb Keane’s central claim in Christian Moderns, if I understand correctly, is that this modern Euro-American culture is characterized by a certain “semiotic ideology” that is, in turn, embedded in a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Speech and space
Like Webb Keane, I have come to see some metapragmatic elements in evangelical culture as bringing about some important and related consequences: projects of translation that make religiosity into a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
An absence of belief?
First, a disclosure: this book and I go way back. When it comes to Webb Keane’s scholarship, I’m what the marketing experts would call an early adopter. I first met Professor Keane—or, rather, stepped...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Colonialism and conflict
In preparing my remarks on Webb Keane’s Christian Moderns, I found myself somewhat disadvantaged by the fact that I am trained neither as an anthropologist nor as a specialist in Indonesia. But it is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
No view from nowhere
The commentaries on Christian Moderns posted over the last few weeks have been both generous and insightful. A brief post can only touch on some of the more salient issues they raise. I’ll start with a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Reconstructing belief
I would like to continue the discussion of modernity and the problem of belief, which, like Danilyn Rutherford, I do not regard as a no-fly zone. The gist of this fine book recounts a story of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Giving up the Holy Ghost
Webb Keane’s Christian Moderns is the kind of work that leaves one’s head spinning because it manages to bring so many analytic categories and theoretical literatures into conversation with each other....
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