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Margaret Mead: A Twentieth-Century Faith (Spiritual Lives)

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For 50 years, Margaret Mead told Americans how cultures worked, and Americans listened. While serving as a curator at the American Museum of Natural History and as a professor of anthropology at Columbia University, she published dozens of books and hundreds of articles, scholarly and popular, on topics ranging from adolescence to atomic energy, Polynesian kinship networks to kindergarten, national morale to marijuana. At her death in 1978, she was the most famous anthropologist in the world and one of the best-known women in America. She had amply achieved her goal, as she described it to an interviewer in 1975, "To have lived long enough to be of some use."

As befits her prominence, Mead has had many biographers, but there is a curious hole at the center of these accounts: Mead's faith. Margaret Mead: A Twentieth-Century Faith introduces a side of its subject that few people know. It re-narrates her life and reinterprets her work, highlighting religious concerns. Following Mead's lead, it ranges across areas that are typically kept academically distinct: anthropology, gender studies, intellectual history, church history, and theology. It is a portrait of a mind at work, pursuing a unique vision of the good of the world.
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    0198834934
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0198834939
  3. Publisher
    Oxford University Press
  4. Publication date
    March 14, 2021
  5. Part of series
    Spiritual Lives
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    9.1 x 0.6 x 6.1 inches
  8. Print length
    240 pages
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"With a blend of evocative prose and careful research, Elesha Coffman presents a spiritual life of Margaret Mead finely attuned to reading for traces of Christianity as well as to revealing her more universalized―perhaps even anthropological―approach to "cherishing the life of the world" (206)." -- Pamela E. Klassen, Journal of the American Academy of Religion

"both quotable and accessible" -- Ian Jones, Reading Religion

"This sublime book reconciles the more widely known scholarly achievements of Margaret Mead with her deeply engaged Christian faith and worldview, and thus is an integral contribution to the biographical sources available. This accessibly written book, grounded in excellent scholarship, is an important contribution to the historiography of the twentieth-century Episcopal Church." -- Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook, Anglican and Episcopal History

"Coffman's reconstruction of Margaret Mead's spiritual life is a commendable intervention in our popular understanding of Margaret Mead. Like her faith, Margaret Mead cannot be easily categorized, and readers will walk away from this biography not only with a reminder of Mead's complex identity, but also with a view into what kinds of existences were possible within liberal Protestantism." -- Adrianne Francisco, US Intellectual History

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Margaret Mead: A Twentieth-Century Faith introduces a side of its subject that few people know. It is a portrait of a mind at work, pursuing a unique vision of the good of the world.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press (March 14, 2021)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0198834934
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0198834939
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.1 x 0.6 x 6.1 inches
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Before reading Dr. Elesha J. Coffman’s book, “Margaret Mead: A Twentieth-Century Faith,” I only had heard once or twice of Margaret Mead, professor of anthropology. I did not know who she was or what she had accomplished in her life and 50 year career. I was captivated by her story: the profound underlying current of Christian faith she had, her personal and professional relationships, her insatiable desire to learn and immerse herself in other cultures using her learning to teach others and make a difference in this world, and in the world to come. I was amazed at the ease of understanding and the intrigue I felt while reading about Margaret Mead. This intrigue invited me to turn page after page in curiosity until the book was finished. Dr. Coffman’s writing is superb, scholarly, and personal. The passion of Margaret Mead, as told by Dr. Coffman, was easily understood. I imagine that others, too, will agree with me when given the opportunity to read her work. I strongly recommend others to delve into the life of Margaret Mead, as Dr. Coffman describes her: “a hero, an icon, once dubbed by Time magazine as ‘mother to the world.’” Indeed, she was!

Rev. Lynne Carol Peter, Sarasota FL; former MDiv student of Dr. Elesha J. Coffman
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