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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
Contributor:
Buckser, Andrew, 1964-
Glazier, Stephen D.
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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