Conversion to Christianity
Subtitle: historical and anthropological perspectives on a great transformation
By: edited and with an introduction by Robert W. Hefner.
Contributors: Hefner, Robert W., 1952-
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
Subjects: Conversion -- Christianity -- History.; Christian converts.; Missions -- Anthropological aspects.; Religion and politics.; Religion and culture.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: World building and the rationality of conversion / Robert W. Hefner; title: From the Jesus movement toward institutional church / Howard Clark Kee; title: The local and the global in southern African religious history / Terence Ranger; title: Of faith and commitment, Christian conversion in Muslim Java / Robert W. Hefner; title: Conversion and colonialism in northern Mexico / William L. Merrill; title: Conversion and community in Amazonia / Donald K. Pollock; title: We are Ekelesia [sic] / John Barker; title: Religion, morality, and prophetic traditions / Aram A. Yengoyan; title: Why the Thai are not Christians / Charles F. Keyes; title: The glyphomancy factor / David K. Jordan; title: Boundaries and horizons / Peter Wood.