TY - BOOK AU - Cannell,Fenella ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - The anthropology of Christianity SN - 9780822388159 AV - BR115.C8 A57 2006 PY - 2006/// CY - Durham PB - Duke University Press KW - Christianity and culture KW - Ethnology KW - Religious aspects KW - Christianity KW - Anthropology of religion KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-352) and index; Introduction: the anthropology of Christianity / Fenella Cannell -- The eternal return of conversion: Christianity as contested domain in highland Bolivia / Olivia Harris -- Renewable icons: concepts of religious power in a fishing village in South India / Cecilia Busby -- Possession and confession: affliction and sacred power in colonial and contemporary Catholic South India / David Mosse -- Reading as gift and writing as theft / Fenella Cannell -- Materializing the self: words and gifts in the construction of charismatic Protestant identity / Simon Coleman -- The effectiveness of ritual / Christina Toren -- Forgetting conversion: the Summer Institute of Linguistics Mission in the Piro lived world / Peter Gow -- The Bible meets the idol: writing and conversion in Biak, Irian Jaya, Indonesia / Danilyn Rutherford -- Scripture study as normal science: Seventh-day Adventist practice on the east coast of Madagascar / Eva Keller -- Appropriated and monolithic Christianity in Melanesia / Harvey Whitehouse -- Epilogue: anxious transcendence / Webb Keane UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kuct-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1169340 ER -