Culture and Christianity : the dialectics of transformation

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Culture and Christianity : the dialectics of transformation

edited by George R. Saunders

(Contributions to the study of anthropology, no. 2)

Greenwood Press, 1988

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Bibliography: p. [195]-210

Includes index

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The volume analyzes local changes in Christianity in eight different cultures--in the Pacific, Jamaica, California, and Italy. The contributors are particularly effective in linking local religious and kinship systems to supralocal changes in Christian denominations, and in analyzing the motivations behind conversions, resistance, and disenchantment. Each essay includes a map, historical background, and a concise ethnographic case. The emphasis is on local interpretations rather than mission histories or theological variation, and the breadth of the cases makes the volume a very useful source for understanding contemporary religious change. A well-written and well-produced volume. Choice As Christianity has gradually spread to all parts of the world, Christian symbology, meaning, and dogma have been adapted in unique ways to each new ethnic, tribal, and national culture encountered. This volume of essays looks at that process of adaptation--at how Christianity transforms culture and is transformed by it. One of the first comparative studies in an area of growing interest to anthropologists, the collection offers empirical ethnographic case studies of Christian movements and communities in Melanesia, Micronesia, Korea, Jamaica, Italy, and the United States and explores some new theoretical perspectives on the processes of cultural change.

目次

Preface by George R. Saunders Introduction by George R. Saunders Symbols of Solidarity in the Christianization of Santa Isabel, Solomon Islands by Geoffrey M. White From Heathen to Atheist on Kairiru Island by Michael French Smith The Apotheosis of Father Marino: Foundations of Tobian Catholicism by Peter Weston Black Personal Faith or Social Propriety: An Interpretive History of Christianity in a Korean Village by Griffin Dix The Origins of Revival, a Creole Religion in Jamaica by William Wedenoja Tradition and Change in an Immigrant Chinese Church in California by Lawrence A. Palinkas The Culture of Spontaneity and the Politics of Enthusiasm: Catholic Pentecostalism in a California Parish by Michael D. Murphy Political Religion and Religious Politics in an Alpine Italian Village by George R. Saunders Transformations of Christianity: Some General Observations by George R. Saunders

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  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA07056641
  • ISBN
    • 0313261180
  • LCCN
    88005651
  • 出版国コード
    us
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    New York
  • ページ数/冊数
    xiii, 217 p.
  • 大きさ
    24 cm
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