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Christian Moderns : Freedom and Fetish in the Mission Encounter / Webb Keane.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Keane, Webb, 1955- Author.
- Series:
- The Anthropology of Christianity
- The Anthropology of Christianity ; 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Calvinism.
- Christianity.
- Conversion.
- History.
- Missions.
- Missions--Indonesia--History.
- Missions, Dutch.
- Religion and culture.
- Missions--History--Indonesia--Comparative studies.
- Missions, Dutch--History.
- Calvinism--Christianity.
- Local Subjects:
- Calvinism.
- Christianity.
- Conversion.
- History.
- Missions.
- Missions--Indonesia--History.
- Missions, Dutch.
- Religion and culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (339 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2007]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Across much of the postcolonial world, Christianity has often become inseparable from ideas and practices linking the concept of modernity to that of human emancipation. To explore these links, Webb Keane undertakes a rich ethnographic study of the century-long encounter, from the colonial Dutch East Indies to post-independence Indonesia, among Calvinist missionaries, their converts, and those who resist conversion. Keane's analysis of their struggles over such things as prayers, offerings, and the value of money challenges familiar notions about agency. Through its exploration of language, materiality, and morality, this book illuminates a wide range of debates in social and cultural theory. It demonstrates the crucial place of Christianity in semiotic ideologies of modernity and sheds new light on the importance of religion in colonial and postcolonial histories.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. Locating Protestantism
- Part II. Fetishisms
- Part III. Purifications
- References
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9786612772023
- 9781282772021
- 1282772023
- 9780520939219
- 0520939212
- OCLC:
- 476023161
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