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Anthropology is defined by mutually held perspectives about human nature, and methods for studying cultures, rather than by a canonical body of knowledge. While anthropology has recently experienced a turn toward epistemological uncertainty, calling into question seminal theories in the discipline, many anthropologists remain committed to the hallmark perspectives of cultural relativism and a materialistic (rather than spiritual) ontology. Yet some are finding these perspectives to be unsatisfactory or even irrelevant. For instance, those interested in the anthropology of Christianity are beginning to challenge the rationalist view that religion only merits academic study insofar as it provides insight into social organization, politics, gender, material culture and so on. On Knowing Humanity is a series of conceptual essays that offer Christian responses to these hegemonic perspectives of rationalism and relativism. As an interdisciplinary work, the authors move beyond the giants of anthropology to draw from the works of philosophers (Polanyi), theologians (Barth, Buber, TF Torrance, Volf) and sociologists (Berger), as well as from scripture. What has theology to do with anthropology? As Eric Flett mentions in chapter 10 (referencing Karl Barth), if God became man, then theology and anthropology are natural conversation partners (209). The authors do not argue that secular anthropology is wrong in toto, but is incomplete without a foundation in

On Knowing Humanity: Insights from Theology for Anthropology. Edited by Eloise Meneses and David Bronkema