The anthropology of Christianity / edited by Fenella Cannell.

Other author Cannell, Fenella.
Format Book
Publication InfoDurham : Duke University Press, 2006.
Description373 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects
Christianity and culture.
Ethnology--Religious aspects. --Christianity.
Anthropology of religion.

Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [325]-352) and index.
LCCN 2006010425
ISBN0822336081 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0822336464 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780822336082
ISBN9780822336464