Brian Malley studied comparative religion at Western Michigan University (M.A., 1994) and anthropology at the University of Michigan (Ph.D., 2002). He currently lectures in psychology at the University of Michigan. His main interests are religion and the intersection of culture and cognition.
Brian Malley's ethnography brims with bold new insights and
counter-intuitive ideas about how conservative evangelicals know
'what the Bible says.' After deftly disposing of literalist
clichés, he shows how their interpretive traditions combine with an
absence of hermeneutic method and their desire for daily relevance
to 'bring the Bible alive' for each generation. A must-read for
anyone curious about what Bible belief really is and how it
happens.
*Susan Harding, University of California, Santa Cruz*
This is an exciting time for students of religion, with new
competing theories drawing on cognitive anthropology and
psychology, and on evolutionary biology. With this first in-depth
case-study of a religious movement based on these novel ideas,
Brian Malley makes an outstanding contribution to the ongoing
debates.
*Dan Sperber, French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique*
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