Professor of Anthopology
Office: Spoelhof Center 227
(616) 526-6705
tvdberg@calvin.edu
Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from the State University of New York at Buffalo.Prof. Vanden Berg has done fieldwork with the Longuda of Adamawa State Nigeria. Related to this fieldwork he has published on the topics of involuntary resettlement as well as on issues of religious integration - specifically witchcraft beliefs of Longuda Lutheran Christians. His most recent publication is "Culture, Christianity, and Witchcraft in a West African Context." (In the Changing Face of Christianity: Africa, the West, and the World. Eds. Lamin Sanneh, and Joel Carpeter. Oxford University Press, 2005).
Prof. Vanden Berg is also involved in the International Development Studies Major. He is currently writing on the interaction of the discipline of anthropology of Christianity and has just published a Reformed defense of Christians in anthropology in Christian Scholar's Review (XXXV:3. Spring 2006).