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Title Conversion to Christianity : historical and anthropological perspectives on a great transformation / edited and with an introduction by Robert W. Hefner.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [1993]
©1993

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  248.24 C766CH    Check Shelf
Description x, 326 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography 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, morali
Subject Conversion -- History.
Converts.
Missions -- Anthropological aspects.
Religion and politics.
Religion and culture.
Indexed Term Christianity Religious experiences Conversion
Added Author Hefner, Robert W., 1952-
ISBN 0520078357 cloth alkaline paper
0520078365 paperback alkaline paper
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