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The anthropology of Christianity

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The anthropology of Christianity / edited by Fenella Cannell.
Publication
Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.

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Additional Authors
Cannell, Fenella.
Description
373 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Christianity and culture
  • Ethnology > Religious aspects > Christianity
  • Anthropology of religion
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-352) and index.
Contents
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.
Call Number
JFE 06-14704
ISBN
  • 0822336081 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0822336464 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780822336082
  • 9780822336464
LCCN
  • 2006010425
  • 9780822336082
  • 9780822336464
OCLC
65425831
Title
The anthropology of Christianity / edited by Fenella Cannell.
Imprint
Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-352) and index.
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Cannell, Fenella.
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9780822336082
9780822336464
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JFE 06-14704
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