The road to clarity : Seventh-Day Adventism in Madagascar / / Eva Keller
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| Autore: |
Keller Eva
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| Titolo: |
The road to clarity : Seventh-Day Adventism in Madagascar / / Eva Keller
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. 2005. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (288 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 286.7/691 |
| Soggetto topico: | Seventh-Day Adventists - Madagascar |
| Soggetto geografico: | Madagascar Church history |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [266]-279) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover -- Contents -- Note on the Pronunciation of Malagasy Words -- Glossary -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part I The Setting -- Chapter 1 People in Search of a Living -- Chapter 2 Christianity and Seventh-Day Adventism in Madagascar -- Chapter 3 International and Local Structure of the Adventist Church -- Chapter 4 Profiles -- Part II The Road to Clarity -- Chapter 5 Bible Study -- Chapter 6 Knowledge of the Bible and Scientific Inquiry -- Chapter 7 Text and Learning -- Chapter 8 The Great Controversy -- Chapter 9 The Construction and Rejection of Ancestral Religion -- Chapter 10 Clarity -- Part III Uncertainties -- Chapter 11 Making Choices -- Chapter 12 Kinship -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The road to clarity |
| ISBN: | 1-281-36782-6 |
| 9786611367824 | |
| 1-4039-7700-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910825611703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Contemporary anthropology of religion.