“Faith” As Fetish

I suggest that “Crazy for God is a story about growing up in a Christian Right subculture, with habits, rituals, language and beliefs that will strike many Americans as distinctive and as peculiar as exotic Philippine headhunters. It is the ultimate anthropological field report, told by an insider, of what it was like “being raised inside a miracle,” the “miracle” of L’Abri, his parents’ unusual and highly successful work as fundamentalist American missionaries stationed in Switzerland. He writes as an outsider but because he was born into the culture and grew up in it, he acts as his own native informant.” 2008.

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