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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
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