ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses some of the novel points the contributors make, and to think a bit about what the volume as whole might mean for anthropology going forward. It focuses on how Christian ontologies, by virtue of the ways in which they differ from secular anthropological ones, can push anthropology to develop new explanatory arguments. The chapter raises two main issues that is "Ontology for Anthropology". One of these has to do with how anthropology should handle the claims made by people they study about the existence and power of various kinds of spiritual entities. Clifford Geertz's formulation of this argument in particular captures some of core assumptions of anthropology in characteristically elegant form, and it have gone on to have an enormous influence on the discipline. For Eric Flett, the role of Geertz's philosophical anthropology, and allied version presented by Berger and Luckmann, in grounding the discipline of anthropology, provides an opportunity for dialogue with theology.
