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Shifting Positions between Anthropology, Religion and Development:

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Shifting Positions between Anthropology, Religion and Development:

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The Case of Christianity

Sjaak van der Geest

Leiden

Brill

Anthropologists in Africa used to have an ambivalent relationship with missionary Christianity and international development work. Being active in the same areas but with different intentions reinforced mutual stereotypes and added to the uneasiness. This seems to be changing now. Christianity has passed its missionary stage and is now an African religion, interesting to study for anthropologists and 'applied anthropology' allows anthropologists to make their discipline more meaningful and relevant to today's world. The involvement of medical anthropologists in health development is a case in point. Anthropologists in Africa used to have an ambivalent relationship with missionary Christianity and international development work. Being active in the same areas but with different intentions reinforced mutual stereotypes and added to the uneasiness. This seems to be changing now. Christianity has passed its missionary stage and is now an African religion, interesting to study for anthropologists and 'applied anthropology' allows anthropologists to make their discipline more meaningful and relevant to today's world. The involvement of medical anthropologists in health development is a case in point.

2011

257-273

Exchange

40/3

1572-543X

Africa

Anthropologists

applied anthropology

Christianity

development

exoticism

missionaries

religion

Sjaak van der Geest

10.1163/157254311X579631

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[Article]

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