Ethnographies exploring the vastly different ways that Christianity is experienced and understood by different groups around the world.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Fenella Cannell is Lecturer in Anthropology at the London School of Economics. She is the author of Power and Intimacy in the Christian Philippines.
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1. The Eternal Return of Conversion: Christianity as Contested Domain in Highland Bolivia / Olivia Harris 51 2. Renewable Icons: Concepts of Religious Power in a Fishing Village in South India / Cecilia Busby 77 3. Possession and Confession: Affliction and Sacred Power in Colonial and Contemporary Catholic South India / David Mosse 99 4. Reading as Gift and Writing as Theft / Fenella Cannell 134 5. Materializing the Self: Words and Gifts in the Construction of Charismatic Protestant Identity / Simon Coleman 163 6. The Effectiveness of Ritual / Christina Toren 185 7. Forgetting Conversion: The Summer Institute of Linguistics Mission in the Piro Lived World / Peter Gow 211 8. The Bible Meets the Idol: Writing and Conversion in Biak, Irian Jaya, Indonesia / Danilyn Rutherford 240 9. Scripture Study as Normal Science: Seventh-Day Adventist Practice on the East Coast of Madagascar / Eva Keller 273 10. Appropriated and Monolithic Christianity in Melanesia / Harvey Whitehouse 295 Epilogue: Anxious Transcendence / Webb Keane 308 References 325 Contributors 353 Index 355 Acknowledgments ix Introduction. The Anthropology of Christianity / Fenella Cannell 1
1. The Eternal Return of Conversion: Christianity as Contested Domain in Highland Bolivia / Olivia Harris 51 2. Renewable Icons: Concepts of Religious Power in a Fishing Village in South India / Cecilia Busby 77 3. Possession and Confession: Affliction and Sacred Power in Colonial and Contemporary Catholic South India / David Mosse 99 4. Reading as Gift and Writing as Theft / Fenella Cannell 134 5. Materializing the Self: Words and Gifts in the Construction of Charismatic Protestant Identity / Simon Coleman 163 6. The Effectiveness of Ritual / Christina Toren 185 7. Forgetting Conversion: The Summer Institute of Linguistics Mission in the Piro Lived World / Peter Gow 211 8. The Bible Meets the Idol: Writing and Conversion in Biak, Irian Jaya, Indonesia / Danilyn Rutherford 240 9. Scripture Study as Normal Science: Seventh-Day Adventist Practice on the East Coast of Madagascar / Eva Keller 273 10. Appropriated and Monolithic Christianity in Melanesia / Harvey Whitehouse 295 Epilogue: Anxious Transcendence / Webb Keane 308 References 325 Contributors 353 Index 355 Acknowledgments ix Introduction. The Anthropology of Christianity / Fenella Cannell 1
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