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Curren Forthcoming Current Anthropology Wenner-Gren Symposium Supplementary Issues (in order of appearance) t VOLUME 55 SUPPLEMENT 10 DECEMBER 2014 Politics of the Urban Poor. Veena Das and Shalini Randeria, eds. Anthropolog Current e Death of the Secret: e Public and Private in Anthropology. Lenore Manderson, Mark Davis, and Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh, eds. Integrating Anthropology: Niche Construction, Cultural Institutions, and History. Agustín Fuentes and Polly Wiessner, eds. Anthropology y Previously Published Supplementary Issues THE WENNER-GREN SYMPOSIUM SERIES Working Memory: Beyond Language and Symbolism. omas Wynn and Frederick L. Coolidge, eds. December 2014 Engaged Anthropology: Diversity and Dilemmas. Setha M. Low and Sally Engle THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF CHRISTIANITY: UNITY, Merry, eds. DIVERSITY, NEW DIRECTIONS Corporate Lives: New Perspectives on the Social Life of the Corporate Form. Damani Partridge, Marina Welker, and Rebecca Hardin, eds. GUEST EDITORS: JOEL ROBBINS AND NAOMI HAYNES e Origins of Agriculture: New Data, New Ideas. T. Douglas Price and Ofer The Anthropology of Christianity: Unity, Diversity, New Directions Bar-Yosef, eds. The One and the Many: Church-Centered Innovations V e Biological Anthropology of Living Human Populations: World olume 5 The Heart of the Matter: Christianity, Materiality, and Modernity Histories, National Styles, and International Networks. Susan Lindee and Evolution, Differentiation, Denominationalism Ricardo Ventura Santos, eds. Becoming the Body of Christ: Sacrificing the Speaking Subject Human Biology and the Origins of Homo. Susan Antón and Leslie C. Aiello, eds. 5 The Old Believers of Trans-Baikalia Potentiality and Humanness: Revisiting the Anthropological Object in Christianizing Language and the Dis-placement of Culture Contemporary Biomedicine. Klaus Hoeyer and Karen-Sue Taussig, eds. Supplement Being Christians in Urbanizing China Alternative Pathways to Complexity: Evolutionary Trajectories in the Middle Of Refrains and Rhythms in Contemporary Damascus Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age. Steven L. Kuhn and Erella Hovers, eds. Egalitarianism, Denied Difference, Gender in Pentecostal Christianity Crisis, Value, and Hope: Rethinking the Economy. Susana Narotzky and Niko Intimacy, Distance, and the Gender of Saints Besnier, eds. 10 Pilgrimage as Trope for an Anthropology of Christianity Christianity and the Anthropology of Secular Humanism Christian Elements in a Vietnamese Syncretistic Religion The Clash of Stances toward Materiality Different “Gifts” Amerindians Receive from Catholics and Evangelicals Current Anthropology is sponsored by e Page Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological The Cultural Kindling of Spiritual Experiences Research, a foundation endowed for scientific, s Christianity, Anthropology, Politics educational, and charitable purposes. e S000 Finding the Difference Christianity Makes Foundation, however, is not to be understood as endorsing, by virtue of its financial support, any of − the statements made, or views expressed, herein. S000 0011-3204(201310)54:5+7;1-R Sponso r e d b y the W enner-Gren Founda tion f o r Anth r opologic a l Rese a r c h THE UNIVERSIT Y O F CHICAGO PRESS Wenner-Gren Symposium Series Editor: Leslie Aiello Wenner-Gren Symposium Series Managing Editors: Laurie Obbink and Daniel Salas Current Anthropology Editor: Mark Aldenderfer Current Anthropology Managing Editor: Lisa McKamy Book Reviews Editor: Holley Moyes Corresponding Editors: Claudia Briones (IIDyPCa-Universidad Nacional de Rı´o Negro, Argentina; [email protected]), Michalis Kontopodis (Humboldt Universita¨t zu Berlin, Germany; [email protected]), Jose´Luis Lanata (Universidad Nacional de Rı´o Negro San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina; [email protected]), David Palmer (Hong Kong University, China; [email protected]), Anne de Sales (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France; [email protected]), Zhang Yinong (Shanghai University, China; [email protected]) Please send all editorial correspondence to Reasons of practicality or law make it necessary or desirable Mark Aldenderfer to circulate Current Anthropology without charge in certain School of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts portions of the world; it is hoped, however, that recipients of University of California, Merced this journal without charge will individually or collectively in 5200 North Lake Road various groups apply funds or time and energy to the world Merced, CA 95343, U.S.A. good of humankind through the human sciences. 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Aiello The Anthropology of Christianity: Unity, Diversity, New Directions: Wenner-Gren Symposium Supplement 10 S155 Introduction Joel Robbins The Anthropology of Christianity: Unity, Diversity, New Directions: An Introduction to Supplement 10 S157 Christian Institutions: Church, Denomination, Schism John Barker The One and the Many: Church-Centered Innovations in a Papua New Guinean Community S172 Chris Hann The Heart of the Matter: Christianity, Materiality, and Modernity S182 Jon Bialecki After the Denominozoic: Evolution, Differentiation, Denominationalism S193 Courtney Handman Becoming the Body of Christ: Sacrificing the Speaking Subject in the Making of the Colonial Lutheran Church in New Guinea S205 Caroline Humphrey Schism, Event, and Revolution: The Old Believers of Trans-Baikalia S216 Christianity, Space, and Place Bambi B. Schieffelin Christianizing Language and the Dis-placement of Culture in Bosavi, Papua New Guinea S226 Jianbo Huang Being Christians in Urbanizing China: The Epistemological Tensions of the Rural Churches in the City S238 http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/CA Andreas Bandak Of Refrains and Rhythms in Contemporary Damascus: Urban Space and Christian-Muslim Coexistence S248 Christianity and Gender Annelin Eriksen Sarah’s Sinfulness: Egalitarianism, Denied Difference, and Gender in Pentecostal Christianity S262 Maya Mayblin People Like Us: Intimacy, Distance, and the Gender of Saints S271 The Anthropology of Christianity at the Boundaries of Christianity and Beyond Simon Coleman Pilgrimage as Trope for an Anthropology of Christianity S281 Matthew Engelke Christianity and the Anthropology of Secular Humanism S292 Janet Alison Hoskins An Unjealous God? Christian Elements in a Vietnamese Syncretistic Religion S302 Reconsidering Key Topics in the Anthropology of Christianity Webb Keane Rotting Bodies: The Clash of Stances toward Materiality and Its Ethical Affordances S312 Aparecida Vilac¸a Culture and Self: The Different “Gifts” Amerindians Receive from Catholics and Evangelicals S322 Julia L. Cassaniti and Tanya Marie Luhrmann The Cultural Kindling of Spiritual Experiences S333 Ruth Marshall Christianity, Anthropology, Politics S344 Afterword Naomi Haynes Affordances and Audiences: Finding the Difference Christianity Makes S357 Current Anthropology Volume 55, Supplement 10, December 2014 S155 The Anthropology of Christianity: Unity, Diversity, New Directions Wenner-Gren Symposium Supplement 10 by Leslie C. Aiello The Anthropology of Christianity: Unity, Diversity, New Direc- around the conference table and during free time, including tions is the 147th symposium in the Wenner-Gren symposium an apropos afternoon trip to the well-known Catholic pil- series and the tenth symposium to be published as an open- grimage site of Fa´tima. access supplementary issue of the Foundation’s journal, Cur- The “Anthropology of Christianity” symposium resulted in rent Anthropology. The symposium was organized by Joel Rob- a total of 18 contributions, including an extensive introduc- bins (University of Cambridge) and held March 8–15, 2013, tion by Robbins (2014) that provides insightful reflections on at Tivoli Pala´cio de Seteais, Sintra,