03201oam 22006734a 450 991081288160332120130510110519.097866130224170-8223-3608-11-283-02241-910.1515/9780822388159(CKB)2440000000014131(EBL)1169340(OCoLC)317335396(SSID)ssj0000394876(PQKBManifestationID)11257414(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000394876(PQKBWorkID)10425992(PQKB)10815253317335396(MiAaPQ)EBC1169340(OCoLC)1145328775(MdBmJHUP)muse80775(DE-B1597)554235(DE-B1597)9780822388159(OCoLC)1154519365(EXLCZ)99244000000001413120090327d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe anthropology of Christianity /edited by Fenella CannellDurham Duke University Press20061 online resource (385 p.)e-Duke books scholarly collectionDescription based upon print version of record.0-8223-8815-4 0-8223-3646-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-352) and index.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.Ethnographies exploring the vastly different ways that Christianity is experienced and understood by different groups around the world.e-Duke books scholarly collection.Christianity and cultureEthnologyReligious aspectsChristianityAnthropology of religionChristianity and culture.EthnologyReligious aspectsChristianity.Anthropology of religion.306.6/3306.63Cannell Fenella1714762NcDNcDBOOK9910812881603321The anthropology of Christianity4108869UNINA