The Anthropology of Christianity

Acknowledgments ix Introduction The Anthropology of Christianity 1(50) Fenella Cannell One The Eternal Return of Conversion 51(26) Christianity as Contested Domain in Highland Bolivia Olivia Harris Two Renewable Icons Concepts of Religious Power in a Fishing Village in South India 77(22) Cecilia Busby Three Possession and Confession Affliction and Sacred Power in Colonial and Contemporary Catholic South India 99(35) David Mosse Four Reading as Gift and Writing as Theft 134(29) Fenella Cannell Five Materializing the Self Words and Gifts in the Construction of Charismatic Protestant Identity 163(22) Simon Coleman Six The Effectiveness of Ritual 185(26) Christina Toren Seven Forgetting Conversion 211(29) The Summer Institute of Linguistics Mission in the Piro Lived World Peter Gow Eight The Bible Meets the Idol 240(33) Writing and Conversion in Biak, Irian Jaya, Indonesia Danilyn Rutherford Nine Scripture Study as Normal Science 273(22) Seventh-Day Adventist Practice on the East Coast of Madagascar Eva Keller Ten Appropriated and Monolithic Christianity in Melanesia 295(13) Harvey Whitehouse Epilogue Anxious Transcendence 308(17) Webb Keane References 325(28) Contributors 353(2) Index 355