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Joel Robbins

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#700

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#276

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Cultural Anthropology

#79

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#102

Historical Rank

#47

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PhD Anthropology Stanford University
Masters Anthropology Stanford University
Bachelors Anthropology University of California, Santa Cruz

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According to Wikipedia, Joel Robbins is an American socio-cultural anthropologist; he is at the University of Cambridge, where he is the Sigrid Rausing Professor of Social Anthropology and the Deputy Head of Division and REF Coordinator for Division of Social Anthropology, as well as a Fellow at Trinity College. He was previously employed at the University of California, San Diego , and at Reed College , and was awarded his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 1998. He has published works on the anthropology of Papua New Guinea, anthropological theory, the anthropology of Christianity, religious change, the anthropology of ethics and morals, and the anthropology of value. Ethnographically, he is known for his work with the Urapmin people. His book Becoming Sinners: Christianity and Moral Torment in a Papua New Guinea Society was awarded the J. I. Staley prize by the School for Advanced Research in 2011. He is currently the series editor for the University of California Press "Anthropology of Christianity" book series, and has also served as a co-editor for the journal Anthropological Theory.

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Joel Robbins's Published Works

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The Globalization of Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity (2004) (675)
Beyond the suffering subject: toward an anthropology of the good (2013) (605)
Continuity Thinking and the Problem of Christian Culture (2007) (545)
Introduction: Cultural and Linguistic Anthropology and the Opacity of Other Minds (2008) (269)
The Anthropology of Christianity (2008) (225)
Between Reproduction and Freedom: Morality, Value, and Radical Cultural Change (2007) (199)
God Is Nothing but Talk: Modernity, Language, and Prayer in a Papua New Guinea Society (2001) (160)
What is a Christian? Notes toward an anthropology of Christianity (2003) (156)
Becoming Sinners (2019) (139)
On the paradoxes of global Pentecostalism and the perils of continuity thinking (2003) (136)
Anthropology and Theology: An Awkward Relationship? (2006) (136)
Pentecostal Networks and the Spirit of Globalization: On the Social Productivity of Ritual Forms (2009) (104)
Secrecy and the Sense of an Ending: Narrative, Time, and Everyday Millenarianism in Papua New Guinea and in Christian Fundamentalism (2001) (84)
Monism, pluralism, and the structure of value relations (2013) (81)
Money and modernity : state and local currencies in Melanesia (1999) (79)
What is the matter with transcendence? On the place of religion in the new anthropology of ethics★ (2016) (71)
Anthropology, Pentecostalism, and the New Paul: Conversion, Event, and Social Transformation (2010) (65)
Ritual Communication and Linguistic Ideology: A Reading and Partial Reformulation of Rappaport's Theory of Ritual (2001) (63)
On Not Knowing Other Minds: Confession, Intention, and Linguistic Exchange in a Papua New Guinea Community (2008) (62)
Evangelical Conversion and the Transformation of the Self in Amazonia and Melanesia: Christianity and the Revival of Anthropological Comparison (2014) (53)
Ritual, value, and example: on the perfection of cultural representations (2015) (47)
The Anthropology of Christianity: Unity, Diversity, New Directions (2014) (43)
Is the Trans- in Transnational the Trans- in Transcendent?: On Alterity and the Sacred in the Age of Globalization (2009) (42)
TRANSCENDENCE AND THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF CHRISTIANITY LANGUAGE, CHANGE, AND INDIVIDUALISM (2012) (36)
Crypto-Religion and the Study of Cultural Mixtures: Anthropology, Value, and the Nature of Syncretism (2011) (34)
On Becoming Ethical Subjects: Freedom, Constraint, and the Anthropology of Morality (2012) (27)
Book Review: Transcendent Individual: Towards a Literary and Liberal Anthropology (1999) (26)
Value, Structure, and the Range of Possibilities: A Response to Zigon (2009) (26)
Melanesia, Christianity, and cultural change: a comment on Mosko's ‘Partible penitents’ (2010) (25)
Afterword: Let's keep it awkward: Anthropology, theology, and otherness (2013) (22)
Theology and the Anthropology of Christian Life (2020) (21)
On the Pleasures and Dangers of Culpability (2010) (21)
Hierarchy and hybridity: Toward a Dumontian approach to contemporary cultural change (2014) (20)
How Do Religions End?: Theorizing Religious Traditions from the Point of View of How They Disappear (2014) (19)
"When Do You Think the World Will End?": Globalization, Apocalypticism, and the Moral Perils of Fieldwork in "Last New Guinea" (1997) (18)
Keeping God's distance: Sacrifice, possession, and the problem of religious mediation (2017) (17)
On Imagination and Creation: An Afterword (2010) (17)
You Can’t Talk behind the Holy Spirit’s Back (2007) (14)
Causality, ethics, and the near future (2007) (13)
Afterword: Possessive Individualism and Cultural Change in the Western Pacific (2007) (12)
Ritual Communication and Linguistic Ideology (2001) (12)
On happiness, values, and time (2015) (12)
Dreaming and the Defeat of Charisma (2003) (9)
Can There Be Conversion Without Cultural Change (2017) (9)
Fieldwork Revisited: Changing Contexts of Ethnographic Practice in the Era of Globalization (1999) (7)
Mirrors of Justice: Recognition, Reciprocity, and Justice: Melanesian Reflections on the Rights of Relationships (2009) (7)
On the Critical Uses of Difference (2002) (6)
Spirit Women, Church Women, and Passenger Women (2012) (6)
On kinship and comparsion, intersubjectivity and mutuality of being (2013) (6)
Introduction: anthropology within and without the secular condition (2021) (6)
Afterword:: Some Reflections on Rupture (2019) (6)
The information systems enrollment crisis: status and strategies (2009) (6)
In What Does Failure Succeed?: Conceptions of Sin and the Role of Human Moral Vulnerability in Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity (2017) (5)
Islamophobia, Religious Conversion, and Belonging in Europe (2015) (5)
Introduction to the special issue: global Christianity, global critique (2010) (5)
Ritual Pluralism and Value Pluralism: On why one ritual is never enough (2016) (5)
World Christianity and the Reorganization of Disciplines: On the Emerging Dialogue between Anthropology and Theology (2019) (5)
Reinventing the Invention of Culture (2002) (4)
Pacific Islands Religious Communities (2006) (4)
An Author Meets Her Critics: Around "Political Spiritualities: The Pentecostal Revolution in Nigeria" by Ruth Marshall (2011) (3)
Turning to Violence: Hazarding Intent in Central New Ireland (2005) (3)
Anthropology in the mirror of theology (2017) (3)
Syncretism/Anti‐Syncretism: The Politics of Religious Synthesis. CHARLES STEWART and ROSALIND SHAW, eds (1995) (3)
14. On the Critique in Cargo and the Cargo in Critique: Toward a Comparative Anthropology of Critical Practice (2017) (3)
On Messianic Promise (2011) (2)
Sad stories of the lives of things (2014) (2)
Where in the World are Values?: Exemplarity and Moral Motivation (2017) (2)
Anthropological and Theological Responses to Theologically Engaged Anthropology (2018) (2)
Ritual Intimacy – Ritual Publicity: Revisiting ritual theory and practice in plural societies (2016) (2)
World Christianity and the Reorganization of Disciplines (2018) (2)
On Knowing Faith (2019) (2)
Book forum: Islamophobia, religious conversion, and belonging in Europe (2015) (1)
Donald Denoon with Stewart Firth, Jocelyn Linnekin, Malama Meleisea, and Karen Nero, eds., The Cambridge History of the Pacific Islanders (2000) (1)
Pathways to heaven: contesting mainline and fundamentalist Christianity in Papua New Guinea – By Holger Jebens (2007) (1)
Preliminary Statement for 1996 Special Issue, Fieldwork Revisited: Changing Contexts of Ethnographic Practice in the Era of Globalization (1995) (1)
Identity and Value in Global Systemic Anthropology (2020) (1)
Spirit Women, Church Women, and Passenger Women Christianity, Gender, and Cultural Change in Melanesia (2012) (1)
Concepts and Values, Anthropology and Judgment (2021) (1)
Morality, Politics and the Melanesian Big Man: On The Melanesian Manager and the Transformation of Political Anthropology (2016) (1)
Values and the Value of Secrecy: (2019) (1)
Pentecostalism and Forms of Individualism (2019) (1)
RELIGIOUS PLURALISM AND VALUE PLURALISM: RITUAL AND THE ANEGEMENT OF INTERCULTURAL DIVERSITY (2014) (1)
New Perspectives on Moral Change: Anthropologists and Philosophers Engage with Transformations of Life Worlds (2022) (1)
Dancing Through Time: A Sepik Cosmology (review) (2003) (1)
Anthropological Perspectives on World Christianity (2017) (1)
Gates of fate. (2001) (1)
Donald Francis Tuzin (1945–2007) (2008) (1)
Book Review:Thinking across the American Grain: Ideology, Intellect, and the New Pragmatism Giles Gunn (1993) (0)
Vassos Argyrou. Anthropology and the Will to Meaning: A Postcolonial Critique. London: Pluto Press, 2002. Vi + 129 pp., notes, references, index. (2003) (0)
Cultures of Secrecy: Reinventing Race in Bush Kaliai Cargo Cults (review) (2000) (0)
8. Millennialism and the Contest of Values (2019) (0)
3. Revival, Second-Stage Conversion, and the Localization of the Urapmin Church (2019) (0)
5. Willfulness, Lawfulness, and Urapmin Morality (2019) (0)
Conclusion (2020) (0)
To Make Themselves New Men (2010) (0)
8. Anthropology of Religion (2019) (0)
ANTHROPOLOGY BETWEEN EUROPE AND THE PACIFIC: VALUES AND THE PROSPECTS FOR A RELATIONSHIP BEYOND RELATIVISM (2018) (0)
Cross Talk in the Books of Chilam Balam (2010) (0)
Review of Dancing Through Time: A Sepik Cosmology, by Borut Telban (2003) (0)
Book forum on Joel Robbins’ Theology and the Anthropology of Christian Life (2022) (0)
Petitions as Prayers in the Field of Reducción (2010) (0)
SOCIETY FOR THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF RELIGION (SAR) BUSINESS MEETING (2015) (0)
Review of Cultures of Secrecy: Reinventing Race in Bush Kaliai Cargo Cults, by Andrew Lattas (2000) (0)
Prologue: A Heavy Christmas and a Pig Law for People (2019) (0)
1. From Salt to the Law: Contact and the Early Colonial Period (2019) (0)
7. Rituals of Redemption and Technologies of the Self (2019) (0)
Anthropology and Economy. By Stephen Gudeman. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. (2017) (0)
Strhan, Anna. Aliens and strangers? The struggle for coherence in the everyday lives of evangelicals. vii, 232 pp., illus., bibliogr. Oxford: Univ. Press, 2015. £55.00 (cloth) (2016) (0)
SOCEITY FOR THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF RELIGION (SAR) BOARD MEETING (2015) (0)
The Canonical Word (2010) (0)
From reasons of state to individual interest (2022) (0)
CommensurationMaya as a Matrix Language (2010) (0)
Perpetual Reducción in a Land of Frontiers (2010) (0)
Why is it useful to compare cultural definitions of the good (2019) (0)
IntroductionThe Field of Discourse Production (2010) (0)
4. Contemporary Urapmin in Millennial Time and Space (2019) (0)
Comments and Reply (2014) (0)
From Discontinuity to Interruption (2020) (0)
Mental Opacity (2020) (0)
Values of Happiness: Toward an Anthropology of Purpose in Life (2017) (0)
Introduction (2020) (0)
6. Desire and Its Discontents: Free Time and Christian Morality (2019) (0)
Passivity, Agency, the Gift, and God (2020) (0)
Vassos Argyrou. Anthropology and the Will to Meaning: A Postcolonial Critique. London: Pluto Press, 2002. Vi + 129 pp., notes, references, index. (2003) (0)
Ritual in Its Own Right. Don Handelman , Galina Lindquist (2006) (0)
The Prosperity Gospel, Humanity, and the Problem of Judgement (2020) (0)
Jean-Philippe Deranty. Beyond Communication: A Critical Study of Axel Honneth’s Social Philosophy (2010) (0)
SOCIETY FOR THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF RELIGION BUSINESS MEETING (2014) (0)
2. Christianity and the Colonial Transformation of Regional Relations (2019) (0)
S ANNUAL REVIEW (2016) (0)
Statement of editorial principle (2005) (0)
Equality, Inequality, and Exchange (2009) (0)
Review of Cultural Dynamics of Religious Change in Oceania, edited by Ton Otto and Ad Borsboom (1999) (0)
Epilogue Full Circle (2010) (0)
State Legibility and Mind Legibility in the Original Political Society (2021) (0)
From Field to Genre and Habitus (2010) (0)
Sin, Atonement, and Christian Ways of Life (2020) (0)
Response (2022) (0)
Don't Throw Away That Rejection Slip (1989) (0)
First WordsFrom Spanish into Maya (2010) (0)
The Grammar of Reducción and the Art of Speaking (2010) (0)
Book Reviews (2009) (0)
Is the future beyond culture (2016) (0)
How to Think Like an Anthropologist. By Matthew Engelke (2018) (0)
Henri Gooren, Religious Conversion and Disaffiliation: Tracing Patterns of Change in Faith Practices (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). xiv + 181pp., $80.00 hardback. (2012) (0)
Conclusion: Christianity, Cultural Change, and the Moral Life of the Hybrid (2019) (0)
RESPONSE TO COMMENTATORS (2014) (0)
Editing with Macros on Micros. (1994) (0)
When Does a Sacrifice Become “Just Meat”? A Sketch for a Theory of How Religions Stop Working (2020) (0)
Comments to Part 3: Christian Renewal and Change in Regional Development (2016) (0)
On Lived Eschatology (2020) (0)
The Scripted Landscape (2010) (0)
After a Men's Cult (1998) (0)
High performance futures trading : a manual of expert systems and master strategies (1989) (0)
Investing in Miracles: El Shaddai and the Transformation of Popular Catholicism in the Philippines – By Katherine L. Wiegele (2006) (0)

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