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To address the limitations of the anthropology of Christianity by advocating for a framework that embraces diverse and complex religious lives.

Too Much Christianity in the Anthropology of Christianity? Making Space for Ambiguous, Ambivalent, and Multiply Religious Christians

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Critiques the anthropology of Christianity, highlighting the importance of lived religion in diverse Christian experiences.

To address the limitations of the anthropology of Christianity by advocating for a framework that embraces diverse and complex religious lives.
Long-term ethnographic research conducted in Mozambique
Analysis of existential anthropology's challenges to culturalism
Exploration of Pentecostalism through an alternate ethnographic approach
Proposes the paradigm of lived religion as a viable framework for studying Christianity
Highlights the necessity of embracing ambiguities and multiplicities in religious practice
Critiques the reification of culturalism within current anthropology practices

Devaka Premawardhana (2026) studied this question.

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