Slain God: Anthropologists and the Christian Faith

by Timothy Larsen

Book Overview

Named Book of the Year by Books and Culture

Throughout its entire history, the discipline of anthropology has been perceived as undermining, or even discrediting, Christian faith. Many of its most prominent theorists have been agnostics who assumed that ethnographic findings and theories had discredited religious beliefs. E. B. Tylor, the founder of the discipline in Britain, lost his faith through studying anthropology. James Frazer saw the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199657874
• ISBN13: 9780199657872
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"