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Christian Moderns: Freedom and Fetish in the Mission Encounter

2007 The Regents of the University of California ;ISBN: 0520246519 ;ISBN: 9780520246515 ;ISBN: 9780520246522 ;ISBN: 0520246527 ;EISBN: 0520939212 ;EISBN: 9780520939219 ;OCLC: 935262089 ;LCCallNum: BV3340.K38 2007

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  • Title:
    Christian Moderns: Freedom and Fetish in the Mission Encounter
  • Author: Keane, Webb
  • Subjects: Anthropology of religion ; Calvinism ; Calvinists ; Christianity ; Christianity and culture ; Christianity and other religions ; Comparative studies ; Conversion ; Fetishism ; History ; Indonesia ; Missions ; Missions, Dutch ; Netherlands ; Religion ; Religion and culture ; Rites and ceremonies ; Sumba Island ; Sumbanese (Indonesian people)
  • Description: Across much of the postcolonial world, Christianity has often become inseparable from ideas and practices linking the concept of modernity to that of human emancipation. To explore these links, Webb Keane undertakes a rich ethnographic study of the century-long encounter, from the colonial Dutch East Indies to post-independence Indonesia, among Calvinist missionaries, their converts, and those who resist conversion. Keane's analysis of their struggles over such things as prayers, offerings, and the value of money challenges familiar notions about agency. Through its exploration of language, materiality, and morality, this book illuminates a wide range of debates in social and cultural theory. It demonstrates the crucial place of Christianity in semiotic ideologies of modernity and sheds new light on the importance of religion in colonial and postcolonial histories.
  • Publisher: Berkeley: University of California Press
  • Creation Date: 2006
  • Format: 336
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 0520246519
    ISBN: 9780520246515
    ISBN: 9780520246522
    ISBN: 0520246527
    EISBN: 0520939212
    EISBN: 9780520939219
    OCLC: 935262089
    LCCallNum: BV3340.K38 2007
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete
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