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Reflections on an Anglophone academic sect
Author(s) -
Hann Chris
Publication year - 2017
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.12239
Subject(s) - sect , individualism , ethnography , protestantism , christianity , originality , sociology , diversity (politics) , religious studies , anthropology , philosophy , theology , political science , law , qualitative research
While saluting the ethnographic originality of the contents of this special issue and the ambition of its editors to extend recent debates in the anthropology of Christianity to large Catholic populations in Asia, the author argues that the contributors remain in thrall to Protestant tenets of rupture and individualism. He urges more balanced coverage of the diversity of Christian communities and more attention to a long history of anthropological engagement with them.