Anthropologists routinely claim that their work has fatally discredited Christianity, along with all other religious belief. Yet many in the field have been Catholics. An academic suggests a solution to this apparent contradiction
Libya was war-torn 70 years ago – much as it is today, and as was much of the rest of the world. In the middle of that suffering, British soldier Major Edward Evans-Pritchard was received into the Catholic Church at Benghazi cathedral. E.-P., as he was called, had always believed in God, though his faith had ebbed and he had found himself shouldering a painful burden of guilt. A meditative trip in the desert led to a spiritual awakening that he described as “rapture”.E-P was not a career soldier, however, but rather the best of a new generatio
19 February 2015, The Tablet
Savages, symbols and riddles
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