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The anthropology of Christianity / edited by Fenella Cannell. - Durham : Duke University Press, 2006. - 373 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-352) and index.

Introduction: the anthropology of Christianity / Fenella Cannell -- The eternal return of conversion: Christianity as contested domain in highland Bolivia / Olivia Harris -- Renewable icons: concepts of religious power in a fishing village in South India / Cecilia Busby -- Possession and confession: affliction and sacred power in colonial and contemporary Catholic South India / David Mosse -- Reading as gift and writing as theft / Fenella Cannell -- Materializing the self: words and gifts in the construction of charismatic Protestant identity / Simon Coleman -- The effectiveness of ritual / Christina Toren -- Forgetting conversion: the Summer Institute of Linguistics Mission in the Piro lived world / Peter Gow -- The Bible meets the idol: writing and conversion in Biak, Irian Jaya, Indonesia / Danilyn Rutherford -- Scripture study as normal science: Seventh-day Adventist practice on the east coast of Madagascar / Eva Keller -- Appropriated and monolithic Christianity in Melanesia / Harvey Whitehouse -- Epilogue: anxious transcendence / Webb Keane.

ISBN: 0822336464 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780822336464 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2006010425

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA668377 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 013527282 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Christianity and culture.
Ethnology--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Anthropology of religion.

LC Class. No.: BR115.C8 / A57 2006

Dewey Class. No.: 306.6/3