LEADER 02580nam 2200601Ia 450 001 9910784160503321 005 20230617004719.0 010 $a1-281-36782-6 010 $a9786611367824 010 $a1-4039-7700-3 024 7 $a10.1057/9781403977007 035 $a(CKB)1000000000342657 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000238844 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11218763 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000238844 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10235415 035 $a(PQKB)10617314 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-4039-7700-7 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC308303 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL308303 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10135391 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL136782 035 $a(OCoLC)560535323 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000342657 100 $a20050506d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#008mamaa 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe road to clarity$b[electronic resource] $eSeventh-Day Adventism in Madagascar /$fEva Keller 205 $a1st ed. 2005. 210 $aNew York $cPalgrave Macmillan$d2005 215 $a1 online resource (288 p.) 225 1 $aContemporary anthropology of religion 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-4039-7076-9 311 $a1-4039-7075-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [266]-279) and index. 330 $aIn recent years, millions of people have joined churches such as the Seventh-day Adventist which prosper enormously in different parts of the world. The Road to Clarity is one of the first ethnographic in-depth studies of this phenomenon. It is a vivid account based on almost two years of participation in ordinary church members' daily religious and non-religious lives. The book offers a fascinating inquiry into the nature of long-term commitment to Adventism among rural people in Madagascar. Eva Keller argues that the key attraction of the church lies in the excitement of study, argument and intellectual exploration. This is a novel approach which challenges utilitarian and cultural particularist explanations of the success of this kind of Christianity. 410 0$aContemporary anthropology of religion. 606 $aSeventh-Day Adventists$zMadagascar 607 $aMadagascar$xChurch history 615 0$aSeventh-Day Adventists 676 $a286.7/691 700 $aKeller$b Eva$01473908 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910784160503321 996 $aThe road to clarity$93818587 997 $aUNINA