Frederick (Fritz) P. Lampe, PhD
BA, Pacific Lutheran University
MDiv, Wartburg Theological Seminary
MA, PhD, Syracuse University 2006
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Specialty areas
Major area
Minor areas
- circumpolar North and Melanesia
Topical specializations
- religion
- critical theory applied to religion and
anthropology
- globalization
- development
- theory and history of interpretation
Biography
As a sociocultural anthropologist, Dr. Lampe explores the
motifs of globalization, belief in the ethereal and something called
“religion.” His research in East Africa explores the nexuses of Baluyia
cosmology, early migrations and trading systems, colonial and mission history,
as well as post and neo-colonial experiences within a particular community as
they influence and relate to contemporary Christian discourse.
His research, while
theoretically focused remains ethnographically grounded. His research began as
an attempt to understand the intricacies of the intersections between culture
and religion, leading him to explore health and healing, representation, power,
hegemony, indigenous cosmologies, and social change; a focus that has both broadened
and narrowed.
He has expanded his interests in thinking about religion as
a compendium of the larger socio-cultural experience. At the same time he
continues to narrow his focus, paying particular attention to the ways in which
elasticity of the socio-religious international experience is inculcated into
existing cultural material.
He has begun to apply this work into the field
of community development. He joined the Northern Arizona University in 2009
after teaching at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Syracuse University,
Utica, and Cortland Colleges.