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9780742517776

The Anthropology of Religious Conversion

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    9780742517776

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    0742517772

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2003-08-25
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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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 phenomenon. Fourteen case studies span historical and geographical contexts, including the contemporary United States, modern and medieval Europe, and non-western societies in South Asia, Melanesia, and South America. They discuss conversion to Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Islam, and Spiritualism. Combining ethnographic description with theoretical analysis, authors consider the nature and meaning of conversion, its social and political dimensions, and its relationship to individual religious experience.

Table of Contents

Preface xi
Acknowledgments xix
The Anthropology of Conversion: An Introduction
1(14)
Diane Austin-Broos
Part One: Conversion and Social Processes
Continuous Conversion? The Rhetoric, Practice, and Rhetorical Practice of Charismatic Protestant Conversion
15(14)
Simon Coleman
Agency, Bureaucracy, and Religious Conversion: Ethiopian ``Felashmura'' Immigrants to Israel
29(14)
Don Seeman
Converted Innocents and Their Trickster Heroes: The Politics of Proselytizing in India
43(12)
Kalyani Devaki Menon
Comparing Conversions among the Dani of Irian Jaya
55(14)
Charles E. Farhadian
Social Conversion and Group Definition in Jewish Copenhagen
69(16)
Andrew Buckser
Conversion and Marginality in Southern Italy
85(10)
Maria Pia Di Bella
Part Two: Conceptualizing Conversion: Alternative Perspectives
``I Discovered My Sin!'': Aguaruna Evangelical Conversion Narratives
95(14)
Robert J. Priest
Turning the Belly: Insights on Religious Conversion from New Guinea Gut Feelings
109(14)
Roger Ivar Lohmann
Constraint and Freedom in Icelandic Conversions
123(10)
Robert T. Anderson
Mystical Experiences, American Culture, and Conversion to Christian Spiritualism
133(16)
Thomas Kingsley Brown
Part Three: Conversion and Individual Experience
``Limin' wid Jah'': Spiritual Baptists Who Become Rastafarians and Then Become Spiritual Baptists Again
149(22)
Stephen D. Glazier
Converting to What? Embodied Culture and the Adoption of New Beliefs
171(12)
Rebecca Sachs Norris
From Jehovah's Witness to Benedictine Nun: The Roles of Experience and Context in a Double Conversion
183(16)
Mary Ann Reidhead
Van A. Reidhead
Converted Christians, Shamans, and the House of God: The Reasons for Conversion Given by the Western Toba of the Argentine Chaco
199(12)
Marcela Mendoza
Afterword
Anthropology and the Study of Conversion
211(12)
Lewis R. Rambo
Index 223(10)
About the Contributors 233

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