Conversion to Christianity : historical and anthropological perspectives on a great transformation / edited and with an introduction by Robert W. Hefner.

Contributor(s):

Hefner, Robert W, 1952-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, γ̐ư1993. Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1993.Description: 1 online resource (x, 326 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780520912564
052091256X
0585130000
9780585130002
9780520078352
0520078357
9780520078369
0520078365

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Conversion to Christianity.DDC classification:

248.2/4 21

LOC classification:

BV4916 .C67 1993eb

Other classification:

11.50
BK 2750

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Contents:

World building and the rationality of conversion / Robert W. Hefner -- From the Jesus movement toward institutional church / Howard Clark Kee -- The local and the global in southern African religious history / Terence Ranger -- Of faith and commitment, Christian conversion in Muslim Java / Robert W. Hefner -- Conversion and colonialism in northern Mexico / William L. Merrill -- Conversion and community in Amazonia / Donald K. Pollock -- We are Ekelesia [sic] / John Barker -- Religion, morality, and prophetic traditions / Aram A. Yengoyan -- Why the Thai are not Christians / Charles F. Keyes -- The glyphomancy factor / David K. Jordan -- Boundaries and horizons / Peter Wood.

Summary: This study of the conversion of tribal peoples to Christianity combines case studies with the contributors' theories, challenging anthropologists and sociologists to reassess the varieties of religious experience and the convergent processes involved in religious change.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

This study of the conversion of tribal peoples to Christianity combines case studies with the contributors' theories, challenging anthropologists and sociologists to reassess the varieties of religious experience and the convergent processes involved in religious change.