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The anthropology of religious conversion [electronic resource] / edited by Andrew Buckser and Stephen D. Glazier.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2003.Description: xix, 236 p. 23 cmISBN:
  • 0585483051 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 306.6/91 22
LOC classification:
  • BL639 .A58 2003eb
Online resources:
Contents:
The anthropology of conversion : an introduction / Diane Austin-Broos -- Continuous conversion? The rhetoric, practice, and rhetorical practice of charismatic Protestant conversion / Simon Coleman -- Agency, bureaucracy, and religious conversion : Ethiopian "felashmura" immigrants to Israel / Don Seeman -- Converted innocents and their trickster heroes : the politics of proselytizing in India / Kalyani Devaki Menon -- Comparing conversions among the Dani of Irian Jaya / Charles E. Farhadian -- Social conversion and group definition in Jewish Copenhagen / Andrew Buckser -- Conversion and marginality in southern Italy / Maria Pia Di Bella -- "I discovered my sin!" Aguaruna evangelical conversion narratives / Robert J. Priest -- Turning the belly : insights on religious conversion from New Guinea gut feelings / Roger Ivar Lohmann -- Constraint and freedom in Icelandic conversions / Robert T. Anderson -- Mystical experiences, American culture, and conversion to Christian spiritualism / Thomas Kingsley Brown -- "Limin' wid Jah" : spiritual Baptists who become Rastafarians and then become spiritual Baptists again / Stephen D. Glazier -- Converting to what? Embodied culture and the adoption of new beliefs / Rebecca Sachs Norris --From Jehovah's Witness to Benedictine nun : the roles of experience and context in a double conversion / Mary Ann Reidhead and Van A. Reidhead -- Converted Christians, shamans, and the house of God : the reasons for conversion given by the Western Toba of the Argentine Chaco / Marcela Mendoza -- Anthropology and the study of conversion / Lewis R. Rambo.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The anthropology of conversion : an introduction / Diane Austin-Broos -- Continuous conversion? The rhetoric, practice, and rhetorical practice of charismatic Protestant conversion / Simon Coleman -- Agency, bureaucracy, and religious conversion : Ethiopian "felashmura" immigrants to Israel / Don Seeman -- Converted innocents and their trickster heroes : the politics of proselytizing in India / Kalyani Devaki Menon -- Comparing conversions among the Dani of Irian Jaya / Charles E. Farhadian -- Social conversion and group definition in Jewish Copenhagen / Andrew Buckser -- Conversion and marginality in southern Italy / Maria Pia Di Bella -- "I discovered my sin!" Aguaruna evangelical conversion narratives / Robert J. Priest -- Turning the belly : insights on religious conversion from New Guinea gut feelings / Roger Ivar Lohmann -- Constraint and freedom in Icelandic conversions / Robert T. Anderson -- Mystical experiences, American culture, and conversion to Christian spiritualism / Thomas Kingsley Brown -- "Limin' wid Jah" : spiritual Baptists who become Rastafarians and then become spiritual Baptists again / Stephen D. Glazier -- Converting to what? Embodied culture and the adoption of new beliefs / Rebecca Sachs Norris --From Jehovah's Witness to Benedictine nun : the roles of experience and context in a double conversion / Mary Ann Reidhead and Van A. Reidhead -- Converted Christians, shamans, and the house of God : the reasons for conversion given by the Western Toba of the Argentine Chaco / Marcela Mendoza -- Anthropology and the study of conversion / Lewis R. Rambo.

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