| Description |
373 p. : ill. |
| Series |
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-352) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: the anthropology of Christianity / Fenella Cannell -- The eternal return of conversion: Christianity as contested domain in highland Bolivia / Olivia Harris -- Renewable icons: concepts of religious power in a fishing village in South India / Cecilia Busby -- Possession and confession: affliction and sacred power in colonial and contemporary Catholic South India / David Mosse -- Reading as gift and writing as theft / Fenella Cannell -- Materializing the self: words and gifts in the construction of charismatic Protestant identity / Simon Coleman -- The effectiveness of ritual / Christina Toren -- Forgetting conversion: the Summer Institute of Linguistics Mission in the Piro lived world / Peter Gow -- The Bible meets the idol: writing and conversion in Biak, Irian Jaya, Indonesia / Danilyn Rutherford -- Scripture study as normal science: Seventh-day Adventist practice on the east coast of Madagascar / Eva Keller -- Appropriated and monolithic Christianity in Melanesia / Harvey Whitehouse -- Epilogue: anxious transcendence / Webb Keane. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Christianity and culture.
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Ethnology -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Anthropology of religion.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Cannell, Fenella.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9780822388159 |
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0822388154 |
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0822336081 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780822336082 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0822336464 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780822336464 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780822336082 |
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9780822336464 |
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