Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations x
4. Acknowledgements xi
5. Notes on Language xii
6. Introduction 1
7. PART I. HISTORIES AND ETHNOGRAPHIES
8. Chapter 1 Colonial Literacies 33
9. Chapter 2 Passages, Configurations, Traces 53
10. Chapter 3 Schooled Literacy, Schooled Religion 71
11. PART II. LITERATE RELIGION
12. Chapter 4 Literate Cultures in a Material World 85
13. Chapter 5 Indices to the Scriptural 95
14. Chapter 6 The Fringes of Christianity 105
15. Chapter 7 Thoughts about ‘Religions of the Book’ 117
16. PART III. WAYS OF READING
17. Chapter 8 Texts, Readers, Spirit 125
18. Chapter 9 Evanescence and the Necessity of Intermediation 137
19. Chapter 10 Setting Texts in Motion 145
20. Chapter 11 Missions in Writing 155
21. Chapter 12 Enablements to Literacy 169
22. PART IV BUREAUCRACY IN THE PENTECOSTAL-CHARISMATIC MODE
23. Chapter 13 Offices and the Dispersion of Charisma 183
24. Chapter 14 Positions of Writers, Positions in Writings 201
25. Chapter 15 Outlines for the Future, Documents of the Immediate 213
26. Chapter 16 Bureaucracy In-between 227
27. Bibliography 247
28. Index 267