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Interview with Sophie Bjork-James, Author of “The Divine Institution: White Evangelicalism’s Politics of the Family”. Dr. Bjork-James is Assistant Professor of the Practice in Anthropology at Vanderbilt University. She has engaged in long-term research on both the US-based Religious Right and the white nationalist movement.
Museum-ification of churches in Ethiopia, Russia and the U.S. establishes active reference points for new forms of public engagement. Antohin draws upon her experience of these sites as well as contextualization theory to explore how religious media are included in the interpretative space of ‘church-museums’. She suggests that in Ethiopia, where tourism is still a new industry, multiple subjectivities and modes of interpretation may emerge through the display and reception of religious media in a public context.
Lillia McEnaney explores James Bielo’s most recent book, an ethnography of a creationist theme park in Kentucky.
