Disjuncture, continental philosophy's new "political paul," and the question of progressive christianity in a southern California third wave church

American Ethnologist

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 110-123

  Bialecki, Jon ^a  

^a Anthropology Department Reed College   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anthropology of christianity; Anthropology of temporality; Badiou; Critical anthropology; Pentecostal charismatic christianity; Progressive christianity; Southern California

Indexed keywords

EID: 76449088128     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: 15481425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2008.01102.x     Document Type: Article

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