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Conversion to Christianity
Historical and Anthropological Perspectives on a Great Transformation
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Conversion to Christianity
Historical and Anthropological Perspectives on a Great Transformation
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One of the most striking developments in the history of modern civilizations has been the conversion of tribal peoples to more expansively organized "world" religions. There is little scholarly consensus as to why these religions have endured and why conversion to them has been so widespread. These essays explore the phenomenon of Christian conversion from this world-building perspective. Combining rich case studies with original theoretical insights, this work challenges sociologists, anthropologists and historians of religion to reassess the varieties of religious experience and the convergent processes involved in religious change.
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Table of contents
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
- PART ONE. Introduction
- CHAPTER ONE. Introduction: World Building and the Rationality of Conversion
- PART TWO. Community Recast: The Form and Meanings of Christian Conversion
- CHAPTER TWO. From the Jesus Movement toward Institutional Church
- CHAPTER THREE. The Local and the Global in Southern African Religious History
- CHAPTER FOUR. Of Faith and Commitment: Christian Conversion in Muslim Java
- PART THREE. The Political Economy of Religious Identity
- CHAPTER FIVE. Conversion and Colonialism in Northern Mexico: The Tarahumara Response to the Jesuit Mission Program, 1601-1767
- CHAPTER SIX. Conversion and "Community" in Amazonia
- CHAPTER SEVEN. " We Are Ekelesia": Conversion in Uiaku, Papua New Guinea
- PART FOUR. Modalities of Religious Exchange
- CHAPTER EIGHT. Religion, Morality, and Prophetic Traditions: Conversion among the Pitjantjatjara of Central Australia
- CHAPTER NINE. Why the Thai Are Not Christians: Buddhist and Christian Conversion in Thailand
- CHAPTER TEN. The Glyphomancy Factor: Observations on Chinese Conversion
- CHAPTER ELEVEN. Afterword: Boundaries and Horizons
- INDEX