TY  - BOOK
AU  - Buckser,Andrew
AU  - Glazier,Stephen
TI  - The anthropology of religious conversion
SN  - 9780585483054
AV  - BL639 .A58 2003 
U1  - 306.6/91306.691 
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Lanham
PB  - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
KW  - Conversion
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Sociology of Religion
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Anthropologie
KW  - gnd
KW  - Aufsatzsammlung
KW  - Ethnologie
KW  - Konversion
KW  - Religion
KW  - Bekering
KW  - gtt
KW  - Antropologische aspecten
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The anthropology of conversion : an introduction / Diane Austin-Broos -- Continuous conversion? The rhetoric, practice, and rhetorical practice of charismatic Protestant conversion / Simon Coleman -- Agency, bureaucracy, and religious conversion : Ethiopian "felashmura" immigrants to Israel / Don Seeman -- Converted innocents and their trickster heroes : the politics of proselytizing in India / Kalyani Devaki Menon -- Comparing conversions among the Dani of Irian Jaya / Charles E. Farhadian -- Social conversion and group definition in Jewish Copenhagen / Andrew Buckser -- Conversion and marginality in southern Italy / Maria Pia Di Bella -- "I discovered my sin!" Aguaruna evangelical conversion narratives / Robert J. Priest -- Turning the belly : insights on religious conversion from New Guinea gut feelings / Roger Ivar Lohmann -- Constraint and freedom in Icelandic conversions / Robert T. Anderson -- Mystical experiences, American culture, and conversion to Christian spiritualism / Thomas Kingsley Brown -- "Limin' wid Jah" : spiritual Baptists who become Rastafarians and then become spiritual Baptists again / Stephen D. Glazier -- Converting to what? Embodied culture and the adoption of new beliefs / Rebecca Sachs Norris --From Jehovah's Witness to Benedictine nun : the roles of experience and context in a double conversion / Mary Ann Reidhead and Van A. Reidhead -- Converted Christians, shamans, and the house of God : the reasons for conversion given by the Western Toba of the Argentine Chaco / Marcela Mendoza -- Anthropology and the study of conversion / Lewis R. Rambo; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2011
N2  - 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
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