University of California, San Diego

Department Member, Anthropology

About

Jon Bialecki is a lecturer in anthropology at the University of California, San Diego; he has previously served as a visiting assistant professor of anthropology at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. He writes on North American neocharismatic Christianity, on global Christianities, and on the anthropology of Christianity, and he is currently completing a manuscript on the implicit logic of self in the charismatic practices of Southern Californian members of the Vineyard church-planting movement and the effects that these constructions of personhood have had on these believers’ political and economic practices. His work has been published in several edited volumes and in academic journals such as the South Atlantic Quarterly, American Ethnologist, and the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute; he was also recently a co-editor of a special issue of Anthropological Quarterly that focused on Christian Language Ideology.