Introduction

This symposium came out of a panel at the Society for the Anthropology of Religion meetings held in New Orleans in May 2017. This symposium, like the panel, asks how anthropological ethnographers engage with the horizons of critique and the specter of critique in their fieldwork and writing on Christianity. What are the ambitions and challenges of a critical ethnography of religion? And, finally, what methodological designs and techniques emerge from the critical orientation? A summary of each contribution in the symposium as well as a discussion of their commonalities is contained in the editorial in this issue (see King, Goldstein, and Boyarin, 2017: 6–7).