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Conversion to Christianity: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives on a Great Transformation Paperback / softback - 1993

by Robert W. Hefner

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Paperback / softback. New. This study of the conversion of tribal peoples to Christianity combines case studies with the contributors' theories, challenging anthropologists and sociologists to reassess the varieties of religious experience and the convergent processes involved in religious change.
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  • Title Conversion to Christianity: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives on a Great Transformation
  • Author Robert W. Hefner
  • Binding Paperback / softback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 345
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press, Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date 1993-02-05
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A9780520078369
  • ISBN 9780520078369 / 0520078365
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.05 x 6.03 x 0.73 in (22.99 x 15.32 x 1.85 cm)
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
    • Theometrics: Academic
  • Library of Congress subjects Religion and politics, Religion and culture
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 92003113
  • Dewey Decimal Code 248.24

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From the rear cover

"Contributes as much to advancing contemporary social theory as it does to understanding conversion."--Dale Eickelman, Dartmouth College

"These rich and rewarding essays problematize a process central to Western notions of the making of modernity--the reformation of peripheral worlds under the impact of global religions. [The authors] challenge established disciplinary boundaries, providing sensitive accounts of the interplay of world-transforming movements and accounts of specific cultures and histories. In doing so, they cause us to rethink the ethnocentric, developmentalist assumptions often built into the very notion of "conversion" itself as a concept in our own scholarly tradition."--Jean Comaroff, University of Chicago

About the author

Robert W. Hefner is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Associate Director of the Institute for the Study of Economic Culture at Boston University.