LibGuides: The Anthropology of Christianity: Mainline Protestantism

Mainline Protestantism

Anthropologists rarely study cultures within mainline Protestantism, but these works provide exemplary models.

Symbols of Community: The Cultural System of a Swedish Church by Peter G. Stromberg
Call Number: BX 9798 .S83 S76
Stromberg examines the ways a local Swedish church offers its members ways of interpreting the world around them.
Anglican Communion in Crisis: How Episcopal Dissidents and Their African Allies are Reshaping Anglicanism by Miranda K. Hassett
Call Number: BX 5005 .H355 2007
(also available as an eBook)
Religion in English Everyday Life: An Ethnographic Approach by Timothy Jenkins
Call Number: BL 980 .G7 J46 1999
Starting from an ethnographic appraisal of the place of religious practices, and thereby returning to an approach more recently neglected, this book offers a detailed understanding of English everyday life.