Being-In-Christ and Putting Death in Its Place
Subtitle: An Anthropologist's Account of Christian Performance in Spanish American and the American South
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: April 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9780807128497
Subjects: Baptist Churches; Death & dying; Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church; Social & cultural anthropology; Social Science; Christianity and culture; Baptists; Southern States; Archaeology / Anthropology; Latin America; Sociology; Central Southern states; Church history; Anthropology - General; Christianity - History - General; United States - State & Local - South; Anthropology - Cultural; Customs & Traditions; Catholic Church; History
First sentence: "Who is Jesus Christ in Latin America today?" liberation theologian David Batstone asks fellow liberationists as they search for a way to make the tortured Nazarene relevant to the oppressed in today's world (Batstone 1991, 139).