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Christian Temporalities

Living Between the Already Fulfilled and the Not Yet Completed

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  • Jul 2024

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Editors:
  1. Anna-Karina Hermkens

    1. Anthropology, Macquarie School of Social Sciences, Sydney, Australia

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  2. Simon Coleman

    1. Study of Religion, Jackman Humanities Building, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

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  3. Matt Tomlinson

    1. CHL / College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

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  • Explores how different forms of Christianity shape people's visions of pasts and futures
  • Introduces new and productive ways of understanding religious temporalities
  • Unveils new ways Christians connect time with divinity, subjectivity, agency, and change

Part of the book series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion (CAR)

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Keywords

  • The Anthropology of Christianity
  • The Anthropology of Religion
  • Religion and Time
  • Christianity and Time
  • Ritual articulation
  • Rupture and Continuity
  • Religion and Temporality

About this book

 This volume explores how different forms of Christianity shape people's visions of pasts and futures, and how the transcendent is brought into human time. Beyond conventional discussions around breaks with the past in Christian conversion and future ruptures announced in prophecy, the volume reveals previously unexplored ways in which Christians work with concepts of time and its articulation with divinity, subjectivity, agency, and personal, social, and political change. By developing Coleman’s argument about “historiopraxy” in novel directions, contributors provide new understandings of religious temporalities and the ritual articulation of immanence and transcendence. While building upon previous scholarly work in the anthropology of Christianity, this volume pushes the debate further and provides original insights into how religion is mobilised to shape and transform people's pasts, presents and futures.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Anthropology, Macquarie School of Social Sciences, Sydney, Australia

    Anna-Karina Hermkens

  • Study of Religion, Jackman Humanities Building, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

    Simon Coleman

  • CHL / College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

    Matt Tomlinson

About the editors

Anna-Karina Hermkens is a senior lecturer and researcher in the School of Social Sciences at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. She has a background in Gender Studies, Religious Studies, and Cultural Anthropology. Her research focuses on the various interplays between gender, material culture, religion, and violence in Indonesia, Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea, with particular attention to the power of Marian devotion in times of conflict and violence.

Simon Coleman is Chancellor Jackman Professor at the Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto, Canada. His research focuses on the globalization of Pentecostalism, contemporary manifestations of pilgrimage, and Christian influences on urban infrastructures.

Matt Tomlinson is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the School of Culture, History and Language in the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University. His research focuses on relationships between language, politics, and religious ritual in the Pacific Islands and Australia.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Christian Temporalities

  • Book Subtitle: Living Between the Already Fulfilled and the Not Yet Completed

  • Editors: Anna-Karina Hermkens, Simon Coleman, Matt Tomlinson

  • Series Title: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-59682-7Due: 23 July 2024

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-59685-8Due: 23 July 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-59683-4Due: 23 July 2024

  • Series ISSN: 2946-3475

  • Series E-ISSN: 2946-3483

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 239

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations

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