Conversion to Christianity : historical and anthropological perspectives on a great transformation, edited and with an introduction by Robert W. Hefner

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Conversion to Christianity : historical and anthropological perspectives on a great transformation, edited and with an introduction by Robert W. Hefner

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historical and anthropological perspectives on a great transformation

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edited and with an introduction by Robert W. Hefner

Instantiates

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

Publication

• Berkeley, University of California Press, c1993

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

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25317249

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24 cm

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x, 326 p.

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9780520078369

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(pbk. : alk. paper)

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92003113

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.b13466100