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The anthropology of religious conversion /

The Anthropology of Religious Conversion paints a picture of conversion far more complex than its customary image in anthropology and religious studies. Conversion is very seldom simply a sudden moment of insight or inspiration; it is a change both of individual consciousness and of social belonging...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Buckser, Andrew, 1964- (Editor ), Glazier, Stephen D. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2003.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The anthropology of conversion : an introduction / Diane Austin-Broos
  • Continuous conversion? The rhetoric, practice, and rhetorical practice of charismatic Protestant conversion / Simon Coleman
  • Agency, bureaucracy, and religious conversion : Ethiopian "felashmura" immigrants to Israel / Don Seeman
  • Converted innocents and their trickster heroes : the politics of proselytizing in India / Kalyani Devaki Menon
  • Comparing conversions among the Dani of Irian Jaya / Charles E. Farhadian
  • Social conversion and group definition in Jewish Copenhagen / Andrew Buckser
  • Conversion and marginality in southern Italy / Maria Pia Di Bella
  • "I discovered my sin!" Aguaruna evangelical conversion narratives / Robert J. Priest
  • Turning the belly : insights on religious conversion from New Guinea gut feelings / Roger Ivar Lohmann
  • Constraint and freedom in Icelandic conversions / Robert T. Anderson
  • Mystical experiences, American culture, and conversion to Christian spiritualism / Thomas Kingsley Brown
  • "Limin' wid Jah" : spiritual Baptists who become Rastafarians and then become spiritual Baptists again / Stephen D. Glazier
  • Converting to what? Embodied culture and the adoption of new beliefs / Rebecca Sachs Norris
  • From Jehovah's Witness to Benedictine nun : the roles of experience and context in a double conversion / Mary Ann Reidhead and Van A. Reidhead
  • Converted Christians, shamans, and the house of God : the reasons for conversion given by the Western Toba of the Argentine Chaco / Marcela Mendoza
  • Anthropology and the study of conversion / Lewis R. Rambo.