Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. 1. Meaning, Anthropology, Christianity 1
5. 2. When Silence isn’t Golden: Charismatic Speech and the Limits of Literalism 39
6. 3. Clarity and Charisma: On the Uses of Ambiguity in Ritual Life 63
7. 4. Rituals without Final Acts: Prayer and Success in World Vision Zimbabwe’s Humanitarian Work 85
8. 5. Nationalism and Millenarianism in West Papua: Institutional Power, Interpretive Practice, and the Pursuit of Christian Truth 105
9. 6. The Limits of Meaning in Fijian Methodist Sermons 129
10. 7. Converting Meanings and the Meanings of Conversion in Samoan Moral Economies 147
11. 8. Dusty Signs and Roots of Faith: The Limits of Christian Meaning in Highland Bolivia 165
12. 9. Paranomics: On the Semiotics of Sacral Action 189
13. Afterword: On Limits, Ruptures, Meaning, and Meaninglessness 211
14. List of Contributors 225
15. Index 227