This collection provides ethnographic studies of Christian cultures around the world and considers why Christianity has been an under-studied subject within anthropology.
This collection provides ethnographic studies of Christian cultures around the world and considers why Christianity has been an under-studied subject within anthropology.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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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