| Description |
xix, 236 pages ; 24 cm |
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pages cm |
| 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 |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Faith.
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Conversion.
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Belief and doubt.
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| Author |
Glazier, Stephen D.
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Buckser, Andrew, 1964-
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| LC no. |
2003007435 |
| ISBN |
0742517772 : |
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0742517780 paperback |
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