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Conversion to Christianity : historical and anthropological perspectives on a great transformation

Title
Conversion to Christianity : historical and anthropological perspectives on a great transformation / edited and with an introduction by Robert W. Hefner.
Publication
Berkeley : University of California Press, c1993.

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Book/TextUse in library JFE 93-3254Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Additional Authors
Hefner, Robert W., 1952-
Description
x, 326 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Conversion > History
  • Converts
  • Missions > Anthropological aspects
  • Religion and politics
  • Religion and culture
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
World building and the rationality of conversion / Robert W. Hefner -- From the Jesus movement toward institutional church / Howard Clark Kee -- The local and the global in southern African religious history / Terence Ranger -- Of faith and commitment, Christian conversion in Muslim Java / Robert W. Hefner -- Conversion and colonialism in northern Mexico / William L. Merrill -- Conversion and "community" in Amazonia / Donald K. Pollock -- "We are Ekelesia" [sic] / John Barker -- Religion, morality, and prophetic traditions / Aram A. Yengoyan -- Why the Thai are not Christians / Charles F. Keyes -- The glyphomancy factor / David K. Jordan -- Boundaries and horizons / Peter Wood.
Call Number
JFE 93-3254
ISBN
  • 0520078357 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0520078365 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
92003113
OCLC
  • 25317249
  • NYPG93-B24855
Title
Conversion to Christianity : historical and anthropological perspectives on a great transformation / edited and with an introduction by Robert W. Hefner.
Imprint
Berkeley : University of California Press, c1993.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Hefner, Robert W., 1952-
Research Call Number
JFE 93-3254
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