Beyond conversion and syncretism : indigenous encounters with missionary Christianity, 1800-2000 /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Lindenfeld, David F., Richardson, Miles, 1932-2011
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2012.
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Table of Contents:
  • Conversion, translation, and life-history in colonial central India / Saurabh Dube
  • Conversion at the boundaries of religion, identity, and politics in pluricultural Guatemala / C. Mathews Samson
  • Christian soldiers, Christian allies : coercion and conversion in southern Africa and northeastern America at the turn of the nineteenth century / Elizabeth Elbourne
  • Horton's "intellectualist theory" of conversion, reflected on by a South Asianist / Richard Fox Young
  • Santa Barbara Africana : beyond syncretism in Cuba / Joseph M. Murphy
  • Inculturation, mission, and dialogue in Vietnam : the Conference of Representatives of Four Religions / Anh Q. Tran
  • Concentration of spirituality : the Taiping and the Aladura compared / David Lindenfeld
  • Acculturation and gendered conversion : Afro-American Catholic women in New Orleans, 1726-1884 / Sylvia Frey
  • Colonial constructs and cross-cultural interaction : comparing missionary/indigenous encounters in northwestern America and eastern Australia / Anne Keary.