The anthropology of Christianity / / edited by Fenella Cannell
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| Titolo: |
The anthropology of Christianity / / edited by Fenella Cannell
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| Pubblicazione: | Durham, : Duke University Press, 2006 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (385 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306.6/3 |
| 306.63 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Christianity and culture |
| Ethnology - Religious aspects - Christianity | |
| Anthropology of religion | |
| Altri autori: |
CannellFenella
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-352) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Ethnographies exploring the vastly different ways that Christianity is experienced and understood by different groups around the world. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The anthropology of Christianity |
| ISBN: | 9786613022417 |
| 0-8223-3608-1 | |
| 1-283-02241-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910812881603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
e-Duke books scholarly collection.