- 著者
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飛内 悠子
- 出版者
- 日本文化人類学会
- 雑誌
- 文化人類学 (ISSN:13490648)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.86, no.1, pp.115-126, 2021
<p>In the past, Christianity was viewed by some as a "Repugnant Cultural Other" in anthropology studies, while others believed it should fall within this field. Against the background of the self-reflection of anthropologists, the number of anthropological studies of Christianity increased rapidly around the 1990s; however, these studies essentially objectified Western Christianity, classifying non-Western Christianity as "Other". The "Anthropology of Christianity" began around 2000 by reflecting critically on the attitude of these studies, but is yet in a nascent stage and faces problems. Nevertheless, it has a certain significance in that it enables us to rethink modernity—even anthropology itself—because there remain certain dichotomies such as modernity and non-modernity, Western and non-Western, and secular and religious. As they also confuse these dichotomies, non-Western anthropologists could contribute to this process of rethinking by joining the "Anthropology of Christianity".</p>