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33293
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8
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English
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Anthropology, Theology, and the Problem of Incommensurability
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Theologically Engaged Anthropology
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Oxford
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Oxford University Press
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156-178
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"This chapter argues that anthropologists and theologians cannot speak about the contributions that theology could make to anthropology without first discussing the two discipline’s relationship. Rejecting both genealogical accounts and universalist narratives that deny the historical and institutional specificity of either discipline, it sees theologians, anthropologists, and the people about whom they write as all being engaged in the same work. They are all struggling with immanent and virtual problems in the sense used by Gilles Deleuze. This means rejecting understandings of anthropology and theology as second-order accounts, however, and seeing theological and anthropological thought as just other ways of thinking the problem through, albeit ways that often more clearly index the underlying problem. The chapter illustrates this argument by showing similarities in anthropological, theological, New Atheist, and Mormon attempts to grasp what may be the twenty-first century’s greatest challenge: an incipient technical possibility of transcending our humanity." [Author]
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