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The anthropology of religious conversion / edited by Andrew Buckser and Stephen D. Glazier.
Penn Museum Library BL639 .A58 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Conversion.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 236 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2003]
- Contents:
- 1 The Anthropology of Conversion: An Introduction / Diane Austin-Broos 1
- Part 1 Conversion and Social Processes
- 2 Continuous Conversion? The Rhetoric, Practice, and Rhetorical Practice of Charismatic Protestant Conversion / Simon Coleman 15
- 3 Agency, Bureaucracy, and Religious Conversion: Ethiopian "Felashmura" Immigrants to Israel / Don Seeman 29
- 4 Converted Innocents and Their Trickster Heroes: The Politics of Proselytizing in India / Kalyani Devaki Menon 43
- 5 Comparing Conversions among the Dani of Irian Jaya / Charles E. Farhadian 55
- 6 Social Conversion and Group Definition in Jewish Copenhagen / Andrew Buckser 69
- 7 Conversion and Marginality in Southern Italy / Maria Pia Di Bella 85
- Part 2 Conceptualizing Conversion: Alternative Perspectives
- 8 "I Discovered My Sin!": Aguaruna Evangelical Conversion Narratives / Robert J. Priest 95
- 9 Torning the Belly: Insights on Religious Conversion from New Guinea Gut Feelings / Roger Ivar Lohmann 109
- 10 Constraint and Freedom in Icelandic Conversions / Robert T. Anderson 123
- 11 Mystical Experiences, American Culture, and Conversion to Christian Spiritualism / Thomas Kingsley Brown 133
- Part 3 Conversion and Individual Experience
- 12 "Limin' wid Jah": Spiritual Baptists Who Become Rastafarians and Then Become Spiritual Baptists Again / Stephen D. Glazier 149
- 13 Converting to What? Embodied Culture and the Adoption of New Beliefs / Rebecca Sachs Norris 171
- 14 From Jehovah's Witness to Benedictine Nun: The Roles of Experience and Context in a Double Conversion / Mary Ann Reidhead, Van A. Reidhead 183
- 15 Converted Christians, Shamans, and the House of God: The Reasons for Conversion Given by the Western Toba of the Argentine Chaco / Mancela Mendoza 199
- 16 Anthropology and the Study of Conversion / Lewis R. Rambo 211.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0742517772
- 0742517780
- OCLC:
- 52001875
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