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Autore |
Keller Eva |
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Titolo |
The road to clarity [[electronic resource] ] : Seventh-Day Adventism in Madagascar / / Eva Keller |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-36782-6 |
9786611367824 |
1-4039-7700-3 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2005.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (288 p.) |
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Collana |
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Contemporary anthropology of religion |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Seventh-Day Adventists - Madagascar |
Madagascar Church history |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [266]-279) and index. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In recent years, millions of people have joined churches such as the Seventh-day Adventist which prosper enormously in different parts of the world. The Road to Clarity is one of the first ethnographic in-depth studies of this phenomenon. It is a vivid account based on almost two years of participation in ordinary church members' daily religious and non-religious lives. The book offers a fascinating inquiry into the nature of long-term commitment to Adventism among rural people in Madagascar. Eva Keller argues that the key attraction of the church lies in the excitement of study, argument and intellectual exploration. This is a novel approach which challenges utilitarian and cultural particularist explanations of the success of this kind of Christianity. |
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