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* Abstract While scholars have traditionally taken Revelation's 'letters to the seven churches' (Rev 2-3) as documentation for the experiences of the Christ-movement in those cities, this article argues that [...]

In a series of articles in ETC, I have argued strenuously that the writing public has virtually no understanding of how poorly we transact thoughts and ideas in our sadly [...]

ABSTRACT The emotion of anger is complex and double-sided; anger is like fire, not only potentially destructive, but also potentially creative as it can alert us to transgression or injustice [...]

This dissertation performs a theological reading of modern Japanese fiction and poetry written during the Meiji-Taisho period (the late 1860s-1930s), the period informed by the transmission, adaption, and response to [...]

Beginning in the 1880s, the Northern Arapaho appropriated Christianity while maintaining core religious forms and tribal solidarity. Through retranslation of the Arapaho Our Father, it is possible to understand how Arapaho Catholics 'converted' this text and other forms to their own theory of ritual practice. Rather than converting to doctrine or the Word, missions were subsumed within a larger strategy of compartmentalizing new religious forms within distinct boundaries and activating them within a hidden subtext of Arapaho ritual movement. Through a unique religious pluralism, which maintained both difference and congruity among traditions, Arapaho Catholics were empowered to control the boundaries between cultures and the flow of knowledge across them. Retranslation of the Our Father, or Lord's Prayer, through attention to multiple functions, meanings, and uses, offers paths for understanding indigenized texts in their local and specific cultural and historical contexts. This article thus follows an ever-developing effort in ethnohistory to understand the ways that indigenous peoples actively translated Euro-American texts and interpreted Euro-American culture. Through this pursuit, ethnohistory can move toward greater balance and symmetry as text translation is opened to multiple and continually evolving levels, perspectives, and meanings.

The anthropology of space in crusade literature is discussed to account for the European preoccupation with the crusades over some 500 years. Topics include the connection between pilgrimage and crusade and the symbolic representation of space in Christian topography.

The characterization of 'God the stranger' has particular appeal for Hispanic Americans. Many Christian writers of this culture have explored feeling caught between two worlds, belonging partly to both but wholly to neither. Hispanic American experience can inform the church that they, like God, have sometimes been welcomed and sometimes not.

Sexual textualization of women's bodies first occurred in Christian literature in the fourth century while resistant texts by women authors also appear where women are protected from the male gaze. Male authors link martyrdom with sexual violation while female authors link asceticism with freedom from social oppression caused by marriage. Both views must be reconstructed to understand female sexuality within Christian thought because men portray virginal women as confined while women portray virginal women as freed.

Many adults search for spiritual guidance and direction and persist in seeking answers to life in today's fast-paced world. With burgeoning economic challenges, political corruption, war in Iraq, poverty, health […]