This book is a history of the relationship between the discipline of anthropology and the Christian faith. It explores how leading anthropologists have come to believe that ethnographic findings and evidence made Christianity no longer tenable.

• Acknowledgments


• Introduction: Anthropology, History, and Doubt


• 1: Edward Burnett Tylor


• 2: James George Frazer


• 3: E. E. Evans-Pritchard


• 4: Mary Douglas


• 5: Victor Turner and Edith Turner


• Epilogue: The Ever-Recurring Drama


• Works Cited

Timothy Larsen is McManis Professor of Christian Thought, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Anthropological Institute. He has been a Visiting Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge, and some of the research for this volume was undertaken while a Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford. His previous monographs published by Oxford University Press are Crisis of Doubt: Honest Faith in Nineteenth-Century England and A People of One Book: The Bible and the Victorians.