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The anthropology of religious conversion

This text paints a picture of conversion far more complex than its customary image in anthropology and religious studies.
Print Book, English, 2003
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, 2003
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xix, 236 p. ; 24 cm
9780742517776, 9780742517783, 0742517772, 0742517780
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Part 1 Preface Part 2 In Memoriam: Morton Klass Chapter 3 The Anthropology of Conversion: An Introduction Part 4 Part One: Conversion and Social Processes Chapter 5 Continuous Conversion? The Rhetoric, Practice, and Rhetorical Practice of Charismatic Protestant Coversion Chapter 6 Agency, Bureaucracy and Religious Conversion: Ethiopian "Felashmura" Immigrants to Israel Chapter 7 Converted Innocents and their Trickster Heroes: The Politics of Proselytising in India Chapter 8 Comparing Conversion among the Dani of Irian Jaya Chapter 9 The Meanings of Conversion in Jewish Copenhagen Chapter 10 Conversion and Marginality in Southern India Part 11 Part Two: Conceptualizing Conversion: Alternative Perspectives Chapter 12 The Place of Evil in Aguaruna Evangelical Conversion Narratives Chapter 13 Turning the Belly: Insights on Religious Conversion from New Guinea Gut Feelings Chapter 14 Constraint and Freedom in Icelandic Conversions Chapter 15 Mystical Experiences, American Culture, and Conversion to Christian Spiritualist Churches Part 16 Part Three: Conversion and Individual Experience Chapter 17 "Limin' wid Ja": Spiritual Baptists who become Rastafarians and then become Spiritual Baptists again Chapter 18 Converting to what? Embodied Culture and Adoption of New Beliefs Chapter 19 From Jehovah Witness to Benedictine Nun: Conversion, Enculturation, and Formation as an ongoing Process Chapter 20 Converted Christians, Shamans, and the House of God: An Analysis of the Reasons for Conversion given by the Western Toba (Gran Chaco, Argentina) Part 21 Afterword: Anthropology and the Study of Conversion
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