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Toward a post‐secular anthropology
Author(s) -
Fountain Philip
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
the australian journal of anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.245
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1757-6547
pISSN - 1035-8811
DOI - 10.1111/taja.12053
Subject(s) - secularity , sociology , anthropology , sociocultural anthropology , anthropology of religion , applied anthropology , epistemology , critical reflection , religious studies , philosophy , history of religions , pedagogy
The discipline of anthropology is dominated by a secular analytical approach which requires the bounding of religion and its exclusion from anthropological ways‐of‐knowing. This is premised on a historical understanding of the discipline as scientific, rational, objective and modern. While these norms are now routinely critiqued, theology remains peculiarly marginalised. This article probes the contours of an anthropology beyond the secular which involves both critical reflection on the secularity of the discipline and a willingness to experiment with new ways of doing anthropology with/in theology.