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ABSTRACTIn theorizing the relationship between Christianity (or religion) and anthropology, scholars have often emphasized the "incommensurability," tension, or distance between two seemingly opposed epistemological frameworks. In this article, I take the case of Billy Graham, one of the most famous Christian leaders of the 20th century, as well as an undergraduate anthropology major, to illustrate how anthropology was imagined to serve Christian purposes, defined by the theological categories of religion. In the modernist Christianity of Graham's 20th‐century evangelicalism, anthropology could be comfortably subsumed under Christian categories. Rather than seeing anthropology, or any science, as being a product of, or coterminous with, secularism, Graham, and his college professors before him, understood anthropology to be fully amenable to Christian uses, so long as secular or atheistic influences were expunged. [Christianity, evangelicalism, secularism, science, race]

Intro -- Power and Identity in the Global Church -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Contextualizing Context-Exploring Christian Identity in the Global Church through Six Contemporary Cases -- 2. Paul in Japan: A Fresh Reading of Romans and Galatians -- 3. Contextualization from the Ground: Longuda Lutherans in Nigeria -- 4. Local Language and Global Faith: Choosing Church Language in the Philippines -- 5. Identity Matters: Christianity and Ethnic Identity in the Peninsular Basque Country -- 6. Contextualization and Ethnicity: Millenarian Discource Among the Bayano Kuna in Panama -- 7. Beyond Anti-syncretism: Gospel, Context and Authority in the New Testament and in Thai Conversions to Christianity -- Afterword: Concluding Missiological Reflection -- Bibliography -- Endnotes -- Index.

The discipline of anthropology -- What is culture? -- Language -- Social structure and inequality in race, ethnicity, and class -- Sex, gender, and sexuality -- Economics -- Authority and power -- Kinship and marriage -- Religion and ritual -- Medical anthropology -- Theory in cultural anthropology -- Anthropology in action.