Shifting Positions between Anthropology, Religion and Development:

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" Shifting Positions between Anthropology, Religion and Development: "
Sjaak van der Geest

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1066958
Doc. No	:	LA110587
Call No	:	‭10.1163/157254311X579631‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Sjaak van der Geest
Title & Author	:	Shifting Positions between Anthropology, Religion and Development: [Article] : The Case of Christianity\ Sjaak van der Geest
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Exchange
Date	:	2011
Volume/ Issue Number	:	40/3
Page No	:	257–273
Abstract	:	Anthropologists in Africa used to have an ambivalent relationship with missionary Christianity and international development work. Being active in the same areas but with different intentions reinforced mutual stereotypes and added to the uneasiness. This seems to be changing now. Christianity has passed its missionary stage and is now an African religion, interesting to study for anthropologists and ‘applied anthropology’ allows anthropologists to make their discipline more meaningful and relevant to today’s world. The involvement of medical anthropologists in health development is a case in point. Anthropologists in Africa used to have an ambivalent relationship with missionary Christianity and international development work. Being active in the same areas but with different intentions reinforced mutual stereotypes and added to the uneasiness. This seems to be changing now. Christianity has passed its missionary stage and is now an African religion, interesting to study for anthropologists and ‘applied anthropology’ allows anthropologists to make their discipline more meaningful and relevant to today’s world. The involvement of medical anthropologists in health development is a case in point.
Descriptor	:	Africa
Descriptor	:	Anthropologists
Descriptor	:	applied anthropology
Descriptor	:	Christianity
Descriptor	:	development
Descriptor	:	exoticism
Descriptor	:	missionaries
Descriptor	:	religion
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/157254311X579631‬