Beyond Conversion and Syncretism
Indigenous Encounters with Missionary Christianity, 1800-2000
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Beyond Conversion and Syncretism
Indigenous Encounters with Missionary Christianity, 1800-2000
About this book
The globalization of Christianity, its spread and appeal to peoples of non- European origin, is by now a well-known phenomenon. Scholars increasingly realize the importance of natives rather than foreign missionaries in the process of evangelization. This volume contributes to the understanding of this process through case studies of encounters with Christianity from the perspectives of the indigenous peoples who converted. More importantly, by exploring overarching, general terms such as conversion and syncretism and by showing the variety of strategies and processes that actually take place, these studies lead to a more nuanced understanding of cross-cultural religious interactions in general—from acceptance to resistance—thus enriching the vocabulary of religious interaction. The contributors tackle these issues from a variety of disciplinary perspectives—history, anthropology, religious studies—and present a broad geographical spread of cases from China, Vietnam, Australia, India, South and West Africa, North and Central America, and the Caribbean.
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Table of contents
- BEYOND CONVERSION AND SYNCRETISM
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction — Beyond Conversion and Syncretism
- Part I — Conversion and Its Complexities
- Chapter 1 — Conversion, Translation, and Life-History in Colonial Central India
- Chapter 2 — Conversion at the Boundaries of Religion, Identity, and Politics in Pluricultural Guatemala
- Chapter 3 — Christian Soldiers, Christian Allies
- Chapter 4 — Horton's "Intellectualist Theory" of Conversion, Reflected on by a South Asianist
- Part II — Syncretism and Its Alternatives
- Chapter 5 — Santa Barbara Africana: Beyond Syncretism in Cuba
- Chapte 6 — Inculturation, Mission, and Dialogue in Vietnam
- Chapter 7 — Concentration of Spirituality: The Taiping and the Aladura Compared
- Chapter 8 — Acculturation and Gendered Conversion
- Chapter 9 — Colonial Constructs and Cross-Cultural Interaction
- Select Bibliography
- Contributors
- INDEX