Conversion to Christianity : historical and anthropological perspectives on a great transformation /
Hefner, Robert W.,1952-
Berkeley, Calif, ; Oxford : University of California Press,
c1993.
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.