The anthropology of Christianity / edited by Fenella Cannell.
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| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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| Physical Description: | 373 p. :; ill. |
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Table of 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.