How can we understand the role of religion in human experience and social life? This book argues that anthropology and theology can work together to answer this question. Robbins provides clear accounts of contemporary anthropological theory and theological debates around issues such as atonement, sin, and the potentials and limits of human action.

Joel Robbins, Sigrid Rausing Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge, UK

• Acknowledgements


• Introduction


• 1: From Discontinuity to Interruption


• 2: Sin, Atonement, and Christian Ways of Life


• 3: The Prosperity Gospel, Humanity, and the Problem of Judgment


• 4: On Lived Eschatology


• 5: Passivity, Agency, the Gift, and God


• 6: Anthropology, the Secular, and Transformative Dialogue


• References