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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hefner, Robert W., 1952- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conversion--Christianity.

Conversion.

Christian converts.

Missions--Anthropological aspects.

Missions.

Religion and politics.

Religion and culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 326 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley ; Los Angeles, California : University of California Press, Ltd., [1993]

Language Note:

English

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.

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520912564

052091256X

9780585130002

0585130000

OCLC:

1149423269