Cannell The Anthropology of Christianity

1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8815-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 384 Seiten

Reihe: e-Duke books scholarly collection

Ethnographies exploring the vastly different ways that Christianity is experienced and understood by different groups around the world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cannell, Fenella

Weitere Mitwirkende

Harris, Olivia

Busby, Cecilia

Mosse, David

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Eternal Return of Conversion: Christianity as Contested Domain in Highland Bolivia / Olivia Harris 51

2. Renewable Icons: Concepts of Religious Power in a Fishing Village in South India / Cecilia Busby 77

3. Possession and Confession: Affliction and Sacred Power in Colonial and Contemporary Catholic South India / David Mosse 99

4. Reading as Gift and Writing as Theft / Fenella Cannell 134

5. Materializing the Self: Words and Gifts in the Construction of Charismatic Protestant Identity / Simon Coleman 163

6. The Effectiveness of Ritual / Christina Toren 185

7. Forgetting Conversion: The Summer Institute of Linguistics Mission in the Piro Lived World / Peter Gow 211

8. The Bible Meets the Idol: Writing and Conversion in Biak, Irian Jaya, Indonesia / Danilyn Rutherford 240

9. Scripture Study as Normal Science: Seventh-Day Adventist Practice on the East Coast of Madagascar / Eva Keller 273

10. Appropriated and Monolithic Christianity in Melanesia / Harvey Whitehouse 295

Epilogue: Anxious Transcendence / Webb Keane 308

References 325

Contributors 353

Index 355

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction. The Anthropology of Christianity / Fenella Cannell 1

Über Autor(innen)

Fenella Cannell is Lecturer in Anthropology at the London School of Economics. She is the author of Power and Intimacy in the Christian Philippines.