The anthropology of religious conversion
By: edited by Andrew Buckser and Stephen D. Glazier.
Contributors: Buckser, Andrew, 1964-; Glazier, Stephen D.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
Subjects: Conversion
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The anthropology of conversion : an introduction / Diane Austin-Broos; title: Continuous conversion? The rhetoric, practice, and rhetorical practice of charismatic Protestant conversion / Simon Coleman; title: Agency, bureaucracy, and religious conversion : Ethiopian "felashmura" immigrants to Israel / Don Seeman; title: Converted innocents and their trickster heroes : the politics of proselytizing in India / Kalyani Devaki Menon; title: Comparing conversions among the Dani of Irian Jaya / Charles E. Farhadian; title: Social conversion and group definition in Jewish Copenhagen / Andrew Buckser; title: Conversion and marginality in southern Italy / Maria Pia Di Bella; title: "I discovered my sin!" Aguaruna evangelical conversion narratives / Robert J. Priest; title: Turning the belly : insights on religious conversion from New Guinea gut feelings / Roger Ivar Lohmann; title: Constraint and freedom in Icelandic conversions / Robert T. Anderson; title: Mystical experiences, American culture, and conversion to Christian spiritualism / Thomas Kingsley Brown; title: "Limin' wid Jah" : spiritual Baptists who become Rastafarians and then become spiritual Baptists again / Stephen D. Glazier; title: Converting to what? Embodied culture and the adoption of new beliefs / Rebecca Sachs Norris; title: From Jehovah's Witness to Benedictine nun : the roles of experience and context in a double conversion / Mary Ann Reidhead and Van A. Reidhead; title: Converted Christians, shamans, and the house of God : the reasons for conversion given by the Western Toba of the Argentine Chaco / Marcela Mendoza; title: Anthropology and the study of conversion / Lewis R. Rambo.