An Australian, trained at the London School of Economics, Michael Taussig is currently professor at Columbia University, New York. He engages in a wonderful dialogue with Marx, Weber, and even Aristotle in this piece, which shows how certain "magical" practices found among plantation workers in Colombia emerge not only in response to capitalist exploitation but serve as an enlightened moral cri...

In the baptismal ritual of Danish Church, Lord’s Prayer has since 1912 been placed after baptism while it formerly was before, as in Luther’s Taufbüchlein. Two consecutive articles argue that replacement influenced by Nikolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig’s theology. The present second article deals with different translations Biblical passages central to baptizee a child God, and attempts demonst...