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UNINA9910812881603321 |
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Titolo |
The anthropology of Christianity / / edited by Fenella Cannell |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Durham, : Duke University Press, 2006 |
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ISBN |
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9786613022417 |
0-8223-3608-1 |
1-283-02241-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (385 p.) |
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Collana |
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e-Duke books scholarly collection |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Christianity and culture |
Ethnology - Religious aspects - Christianity |
Anthropology of religion |
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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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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-352) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Ethnographies exploring the vastly different ways that Christianity is experienced and understood by different groups around the world. |
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