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The Road to Clarity : Seventh-Day Adventism in Madagascar / by E. Keller.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Keller, Eva.
- Series:
- Contemporary Anthropology of Religion, 2946-3483
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnology.
- Social sciences--Philosophy.
- Social sciences.
- Religion and sociology.
- Ethnology--Africa.
- Culture.
- Religion.
- Anthropology.
- Sociocultural Anthropology.
- Social Theory.
- Sociology of Religion.
- African Culture.
- Local Subjects:
- Sociocultural Anthropology.
- Social Theory.
- Sociology of Religion.
- African Culture.
- Religion.
- Anthropology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (288 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2005.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In recent years, millions of people have joined churches such as the Seventh-day Adventist which prosper enormously in different parts of the world. The Road to Clarity is one of the first ethnographic in-depth studies of this phenomenon. It is a vivid account based on almost two years of participation in ordinary church members' daily religious and non-religious lives. The book offers a fascinating inquiry into the nature of long-term commitment to Adventism among rural people in Madagascar. Eva Keller argues that the key attraction of the church lies in the excitement of study, argument and intellectual exploration. This is a novel approach which challenges utilitarian and cultural particularist explanations of the success of this kind of Christianity.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Note on the Pronunciation of Malagasy Words
- Glossary
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Part I The Setting
- Chapter 1 People in Search of a Living
- Chapter 2 Christianity and Seventh-Day Adventism in Madagascar
- Chapter 3 International and Local Structure of the Adventist Church
- Chapter 4 Profiles
- Part II The Road to Clarity
- Chapter 5 Bible Study
- Chapter 6 Knowledge of the Bible and Scientific Inquiry
- Chapter 7 Text and Learning
- Chapter 8 The Great Controversy
- Chapter 9 The Construction and Rejection of Ancestral Religion
- Chapter 10 Clarity
- Part III Uncertainties
- Chapter 11 Making Choices
- Chapter 12 Kinship
- Conclusions
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Z.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [266]-279) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611367824
- 9781281367822
- 1281367826
- 9781403977007
- 1403977003
- OCLC:
- 560535323
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