Conversion to Christianity

Historical and Anthropological Perspectives on a Great Transformation

By: Robert W. Hefner (Editor)

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Paperback | 5 February 1993 | Edition Number 1

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"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

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Preface	p. vii
Notes on Contributors	p. ix
Introduction
World Building and the Rationality of Conversion	p. 3
Community Recast: The form and Meanings of Christian Conversion
From the Jesus Movement toward Institutional Church	p. 47
The Local and the Global in Southern African Religious History	p. 65
Of Faith and Commitment: Christian Conversion in Muslim Java	p. 99
The Political Economy of Religious Identity
Conversion and Colonialism in Northern Mexico: The Tarahumara Response to the Jesuit Mission Program, 1601-1767	p. 129
Conversion and "Community" in Amazonia	p. 165
"We Are Ekelesia": Conversion in Uiaku, Papua New Guinea	p. 199
Modalities of Religious Exchange
Religion, Morality, and Prophetic Traditions: Conversion among the Pitjantjatjara of Central Australia	p. 233
Why the Thai Are Not Christians: Buddhist and Christian Conversion in Thailand	p. 259
The Glyphomancy Factor: Observations on Chinese Conversion	p. 285
Afterword: Boundaries and Horizons	p. 305
Index	p. 323
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