On knowing humanity: insights from theology for anthropology - 39

Intended as a critique of anthropology's epistemological and ontological assumptions and a demonstration of the value added by an expanded set of parameters for the field, the core argument of this work is that whilst ethnographers have allowed their own perspectives to be positively influenced by the perspectives of their informants, until recently anthropology has done little in the way of adopting these other viewpoints as critical tools for analysis precisely because it has represented those viewpoints from a limited epistemological perspective.

With chapters organised around topics in epistemology and ontology, and an afterword by Joel Robbins, the book is essential reading for scholars of the anthropology of religion, as well as other philosophically-oriented social scientists, theologians and those who are interested in gaining further insight into the human condition.