Christian moderns freedom and fetish in the mission encounter
Religion's reach -- Beliefs, words, and selves -- Religion, culture, and the colonies -- Conversion's histories -- Umbu Neka's conversion -- Fetishism and the word -- Modern sincerity -- Materialism, missionaries, and modern subjects -- Text, act, objectifications -- Money is no objec...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Berkeley, Calif. u.a.
Univ. of California Press
2007
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| Schriftenreihe: | The anthropology of Christianity
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Missions
> History
> Missions, Dutch
> Calvinism
> Religion and culture
> Conversion
> Christianity
> Sumbanese (Indonesian people)
> Religion
> Rites and ceremonies
> Calvinists
> Anthropology of religion
> Indonesia
> Christianity and culture
> Christianity and other religions
> Fetishism
> Netherlands
> Sumba Island (Indonesia)
> Religious life and customs
> Sumba
> Niederländer
> Mission
> Calvinismus
> Inkulturation
> Christentum
> Interreligiöser Dialog
> Ethnische Religion
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| Zusammenfassung: | Religion's reach -- Beliefs, words, and selves -- Religion, culture, and the colonies -- Conversion's histories -- Umbu Neka's conversion -- Fetishism and the word -- Modern sincerity -- Materialism, missionaries, and modern subjects -- Text, act, objectifications -- Money is no object 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. |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | XIII, 323 S. Ill. 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 0520246519 0-520-24651-9 0520246527 0-520-24652-7 9780520246515 978-0-520-24651-5 9780520246522 978-0-520-24652-2 |