...Seven... Forgetting Conversion. The Summer Institute of Linguistics Mission in the Piro Lived World

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Gow, Peter. "...Seven... Forgetting Conversion. The Summer Institute of Linguistics Mission in the Piro Lived World". The Anthropology of Christianity, edited by Fenella Cannell, New York, USA: Duke University Press, 2006, pp. 211-239. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822388159-009

Gow, P. (2006). ...Seven... Forgetting Conversion. The Summer Institute of Linguistics Mission in the Piro Lived World. In F. Cannell (Ed.), The Anthropology of Christianity (pp. 211-239). New York, USA: Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822388159-009

Gow, P. 2006. ...Seven... Forgetting Conversion. The Summer Institute of Linguistics Mission in the Piro Lived World. In: Cannell, F. ed. The Anthropology of Christianity. New York, USA: Duke University Press, pp. 211-239. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822388159-009

Gow, Peter. "...Seven... Forgetting Conversion. The Summer Institute of Linguistics Mission in the Piro Lived World" In The Anthropology of Christianity edited by Fenella Cannell, 211-239. New York, USA: Duke University Press, 2006. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822388159-009

Gow P. ...Seven... Forgetting Conversion. The Summer Institute of Linguistics Mission in the Piro Lived World. In: Cannell F (ed.) The Anthropology of Christianity. New York, USA: Duke University Press; 2006. p.211-239. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822388159-009

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Frontmatter i
Contents vii
Acknowledgments ix
...Introduction... The Anthropology of Christianity 1
...One... The Eternal Return of Conversion. Christianity as Contested Domain in Highland Bolivia 51
...Two... Renewable Icons. Concepts of Religious Power in a Fishing Village in South India 77
...Three... Possession and Confession. Affliction and Sacred Power in Colonial and Contemporary Catholic South India 99
...Four... Reading as Gift and Writing as Theft 134
...Five... Materializing the Self. Words and Gifts in the Construction of Charismatic Protestant Identity 163
...Six... The Effectiveness of Ritual 185
...Seven... Forgetting Conversion. The Summer Institute of Linguistics Mission in the Piro Lived World 211
...Eight... The Bible Meets the Idol. Writing and Conversion in Biak, Irian Jaya, Indonesia 240
...Nine... Scripture Study as Normal Science. Seventh-Day Adventist Practice on the East Coast of Madagascar 273
...Ten... Appropriated and Monolithic Christianity in Melanesia 295
...Epilogue... Anxious Transcendence 308
References 325
Contributors 353
Index 355

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Chapters in this book

Frontmatter i
Contents vii
Acknowledgments ix
...Introduction... The Anthropology of Christianity 1
...One... The Eternal Return of Conversion. Christianity as Contested Domain in Highland Bolivia 51
...Two... Renewable Icons. Concepts of Religious Power in a Fishing Village in South India 77
...Three... Possession and Confession. Affliction and Sacred Power in Colonial and Contemporary Catholic South India 99
...Four... Reading as Gift and Writing as Theft 134
...Five... Materializing the Self. Words and Gifts in the Construction of Charismatic Protestant Identity 163
...Six... The Effectiveness of Ritual 185
...Seven... Forgetting Conversion. The Summer Institute of Linguistics Mission in the Piro Lived World 211
...Eight... The Bible Meets the Idol. Writing and Conversion in Biak, Irian Jaya, Indonesia 240
...Nine... Scripture Study as Normal Science. Seventh-Day Adventist Practice on the East Coast of Madagascar 273
...Ten... Appropriated and Monolithic Christianity in Melanesia 295
...Epilogue... Anxious Transcendence 308
References 325
Contributors 353
Index 355

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