The anthropology of religious conversion /

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Imprint:	Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2003.
Description:	1 online resource (257 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Conversion. Conversion. Electronic book.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11203109

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Other authors / contributors:	Buckser, Andrew, 1964- editor. Glazier, Stephen D., editor.
ISBN:	9780585483054 0585483051 1299795021 9781299795020 0742517772 9780742517776 0742517780 9780742517783
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 English. digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
Summary:	The Anthropology of Religious Conversion paints a picture of conversion far more complex than its customary image in anthropology and religious studies. Conversion is very seldom simply a sudden moment of insight or inspiration; it is a change both of individual consciousness and of social belonging, of mental attitude and of physical experience, whose unfolding depends both on its cultural setting and on the distinct individuals who undergo it. The book explores religious conversion in a variety of cultural settings and considers how anthropological approaches can help us understand the pheno.
Other form:	Print version: Buckser, Andrew. Anthropology of Religious Conversion. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2003 9780742517783

Table of Contents:

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. The Anthropology of Conversion: An Introduction
Part 1. Conversion and Social Processes
2. Continuous Conversion? The Rhetoric, Practice, and Rhetorical Practice of Charismatic Protestant Conversion
3. Agency, Bureaucracy, and Religious Conversion: Ethiopian "Felashmura" Immigrants to Israel
4. Converted Innocents and Their Trickster Heroes: The Politics of Proselytizing in India
5. Comparing Conversions among the Dani of Irian Jaya
6. Social Conversion and Group Definition in Jewish Copenhagen
7. Conversion and Marginality in Southern Italy
Part 2. Conceptualizing Conversion: Alternative Perspectives
8. "I Discovered My Sin!": Aguaruna Evangelical Conversion Narratives
9. Torning the Belly: Insights on Religious Conversion from New Guinea Gut Feelings
10. Constraint and Freedom in Icelandic Conversions
11. Mystical Experiences, American Culture, and Conversion to Christian Spiritualism
Part 3. Conversion and Individual Experience
12. "Limin' wid Jah": Spiritual Baptists Who Become Rastafarians and Then Become Spiritual Baptists Again
13. Converting to What? Embodied Culture and the Adoption of New Beliefs
14. From Jehovah's Witness to Benedictine Nun: The Roles of Experience and Context in a Double Conversion
15. Converted Christians, Shamans, and the House of God: The Reasons for Conversion Given by the Western Toba of the Argentine Chaco
Afterword
16. Anthropology and the Study of Conversion
Index
About the Contributors

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