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The Anthropology Of Christianity

  • The Anthropology Of Christianity

  • Attribution

    edited by Fenella Cannell

  • Publication Details

    Book, Duke University Press, 2006

  • Availability

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      (LOWER LEVEL)  BR115.C8 A58 2006         AVAILABLE

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    At the same time, the contributors, all anthropologists, rethink the vexed relationship between anthropology and Christianity. The contributors examine the contours of Christianity among diverse groups: Catholics in India, the Philippines, and Bolivia, and Seventh-Day Adventists in Madagascar; Highlighting the wide variation in what it means to be Christian, the contributors reveal vastly different understandings and valuations of conversion, orthodoxy, Scripture, the inspired word, ritual, gifts, and the concept of heaven. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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  • Contents

    • 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 Busby
    • 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

  • ISBN

    • 0822336464
    • 9780822336464
    • 0822336081
    • 9780822336082

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