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Conversion to Christianity : historical and anthropological perspectives on a great transformation /

This study of the conversion of tribal peoples to Christianity combines case studies with the contributors' theories, challenging anthropologists and sociologists to reassess the varieties of religious experience and the convergent processes involved in religious change.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Hefner, Robert W., 1952-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1993.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • World building and the rationality of conversion / Robert W. Hefner
  • From the Jesus movement toward institutional church / Howard Clark Kee
  • The local and the global in southern African religious history / Terence Ranger
  • Of faith and commitment, Christian conversion in Muslim Java / Robert W. Hefner
  • Conversion and colonialism in northern Mexico / William L. Merrill
  • Conversion and community in Amazonia / Donald K. Pollock
  • We are Ekelesia [sic] / John Barker
  • Religion, morality, and prophetic traditions / Aram A. Yengoyan
  • Why the Thai are not Christians / Charles F. Keyes
  • The glyphomancy factor / David K. Jordan
  • Boundaries and horizons / Peter Wood.