Anthropology Of Religion | How Faith Impacts Social, Political, And Economic Systems

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

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🗓️ 20 November 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Joining us today is Dr. Jon Mitchell, a Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Sussex. Dr. Mitchell is an expert in religious anthropology and researches questions of identity and political alignment in various regions…

Dr. Mitchell's primary research site is Malta, an island in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea. Here, he conducted his doctoral research during the 1990s – a time of rapid social and political transformation. Most recently, he has been researching the places and processes of belief while exploring the social, political, and economic significance of Maltese football.

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The difference between biblical archaeology and the anthropology of religion.
The effects of Europeanization on the island of Malta.
Why immigrants tend to cluster in specific industries.
The ways that pilgrimage sites impact surrounding economies.

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0:30.0	This is the Finding Genius Podcast.
0:33.0	That is Richard Jacobs.
0:35.0	Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with The Finding Genius Podcast.
0:41.0	My guest today is John Mitchell.
0:42.0	He's a professor of social anthropology at the Sussex Center for Migration Research.
0:47.0	We're going to talk about what he calls the anthropology of religion.
0:51.0	So welcome, John. Thank you for coming. Well thank you very much for
0:54.0	inviting me and for giving me this opportunity to talk about something which is very
0:58.6	very close to my heart and to my work. Just a slight correction. I am loosely
1:02.4	associated with the Migration Studies unit, but my main base here in
1:06.0	such as it is in the Department of anthropology.
1:08.0	So what's the difference between, let's say, biblical archaeology versus anthropological view of religion.
1:14.8	Okay, so that's a very, that's quite a big question. The answer is quite a lot. I mean, the form of
1:19.7	anthropology that I work with, which is social cultural anthropology tends to work on the
1:25.2	the contemporary rather than the historical so it's moving away from that kind of
1:30.1	digging into the past and that sort of I guess or dickle Indiana Jones kind of stereo of
1:35.0	kind of, I guess, or you call it Indiana Jones kind of stereotype of the anthropological work about, you know, digging into the past and digging into the evolution of religion.
1:41.0	My work and the work of my colleagues in the social and
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