Anthropology of Religious Conversion -

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Résumé :
Part 1 Preface Part 2 In Memoriam: Morton Klass Chapter 3 The Anthropology of Conversion: An Introduction Part 4 Part One: Conversion and Social Processes Chapter 5 Continuous Conversion? The Rhetoric, Practice, and Rhetorical Practice of Charismatic Protestant Coversion Chapter 6 Agency, Bureaucracy and Religious Conversion: Ethiopian Felashmura Immigrants to Israel Chapter 7 Converted Innocents and their Trickster Heroes: The Politics of Proselytising in India Chapter 8 Comparing Conversion among the Dani of Irian Jaya Chapter 9 The Meanings of Conversion in Jewish Copenhagen Chapter 10 Conversion and Marginality in Southern India Part 11 Part Two: Conceptualizing Conversion: Alternative Perspectives Chapter 12 The Place of Evil in Aguaruna Evangelical Conversion Narratives Chapter 13 Turning the Belly: Insights on Religious Conversion from New Guinea Gut Feelings Chapter 14 Constraint and Freedom in Icelandic Conversions Chapter 15 Mystical Experiences, American Culture, and Conversion to Christian Spiritualist Churches Part 16 Part Three: Conversion and Individual Experience Chapter 17 Limin' wid Ja: Spiritual Baptists who become Rastafarians and then become Spiritual Baptists again Chapter 18 Converting to what? Embodied Culture and Adoption of New Beliefs Chapter 19 From Jehovah Witness to Benedictine Nun: Conversion, Enculturation, and Formation as an ongoing Process Chapter 20 Converted Christians, Shamans, and the House of God: An Analysis of the Reasons for Conversion given by the Western Toba (Gran Chaco, Argentina) Part 21 Afterword: Anthropology and the Study of Conversion...

Biographie:
Andrew Buckser is an assistant professor of anthropology at Purdue University. Stephen D. Glazier is a professor of anthropology at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln....

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Part 1 Preface
Part 2 In Memoriam: Morton Klass
Chapter 3 The Anthropology of Conversion: An Introduction
Part 4 Part One: Conversion and Social Processes
Chapter 5 Continuous Conversion? The Rhetoric, Practice, and Rhetorical Practice of Charismatic Protestant Coversion
Chapter 6 Agency, Bureaucracy and Religious Conversion: Ethiopian Felashmura Immigrants to Israel
Chapter 7 Converted Innocents and their Trickster Heroes: The Politics of Proselytising in India
Chapter 8 Comparing Conversion among the Dani of Irian Jaya
Chapter 9 The Meanings of Conversion in Jewish Copenhagen
Chapter 10 Conversion and Marginality in Southern India
Part 11 Part Two: Conceptualizing Conversion: Alternative Perspectives
Chapter 12 The Place of Evil in Aguaruna Evangelical Conversion Narratives
Chapter 13 Turning the Belly: Insights on Religious Conversion from New Guinea Gut Feelings
Chapter 14 Constraint and Freedom in Icelandic Conversions
Chapter 15 Mystical Experiences, American Culture, and Conversion to Christian Spiritualist Churches
Part 16 Part Three: Conversion and Individual Experience
Chapter 17 Limin' wid Ja: Spiritual Baptists who become Rastafarians and then become Spiritual Baptists again
Chapter 18 Converting to what? Embodied Culture and Adoption of New Beliefs
Chapter 19 From Jehovah Witness to Benedictine Nun: Conversion, Enculturation, and Formation as an ongoing Process
Chapter 20 Converted Christians, Shamans, and the House of God: An Analysis of the Reasons for Conversion given by the Western Toba (Gran Chaco, Argentina)
Part 21 Afterword: Anthropology and the Study of Conversion