Fenella Cannell

The Anthropology of Christianity

Herausgeber: Cannell, Fenella

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Ethnographies exploring the vastly different ways that Christianity is experienced and understood by different groups around the world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 156mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 548g
• ISBN-13: 9780822336464
• ISBN-10: 0822336464
• Artikelnr.: 20982383

Autorenporträt

Fenella Cannell, ed.

Inhaltsangabe

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