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The anthropology of Christianity /

Ethnographies exploring the vastly different ways that Christianity is experienced and understood by different groups around the world.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Cannell, Fenella
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.
Colección:e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 Bus
  • 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.