Beyond Mediation: An Anthropological Understanding of the Relationship Between Humans, Materiality, and Transcendence in Protestant Christianity

How does a relationship come about between religious practitioners and supernatural beings? According to the mediation turn—which has recently taken hold in the material religion field and the anthropology of religion—religious communities use sensational forms to mediate the presence of an otherwis...

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Main Author: Hovland, Ingie (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press [2018]
In: Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Year: 2018, Volume: 86, Issue: 2, Pages: 425-453
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Africa / Protestant Church / Mission / Object (Philosophy) / Mediation / Human being / Transcendence / History 1800-1900
RelBib Classification:CB Christian life; spirituality
KBN Sub-Saharan Africa
KDD Protestant Church
RJ Mission; missiology
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