Editing Actor–network theory (section)

=== {{anchor|Anthropology of Christianity}}Anthropology of religion===
In the study of Christianity by anthropologists, the ANT has been employed in a variety of ways of understanding how humans interact with nonhuman actors. Some have been critical of the field of [[Anthropology of religion|Anthropology of Religion]] in its tendency to presume that God is not a social actor. The ANT is used to problematize the role of God, as a nonhuman actor, and speak of how They affect religious practice.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Bialecki|first=Jon|date=March 2014|title=Does God Exist in Methodological Atheism? On Tanya Lurhmann's When God Talks Back and Bruno Latour|journal=Anthropology of Consciousness|language=en|volume=25|issue=1|pages=32–52|doi=10.1111/anoc.12017|url=https://www.pure.ed.ac.uk/ws/files/18504835/Bialecki_Does_God_Exist_in_Methodological_Athiesm_postreview_1.pdf|hdl=20.500.11820/97e26446-0176-4a22-9348-e15014ed325a|s2cid=145771771 |hdl-access=free
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|archive-date=29 March 2022}}</ref> Others have used the ANT to speak of the structures and placements of religious buildings, especially in cross-cultural contexts, which can see architecture as agents making God's presence tangible.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Chambon|first=Michel|date=August 2017|title=The Action of Christian Buildings on their Chinese Environment|journal=Studies in World Christianity|language=en|volume=23|issue=2|pages=100–121|doi=10.3366/swc.2017.0179|issn=1354-9901}}</ref>