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Beyond conversion and syncretism : indigenous encounters with missionary Christianity, 1800-2000 / edited by David Lindenfeld and Miles Richardson.

Contributor(s): Lindenfeld, David F | Richardson, Miles, 1932-2011
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Berghahn Books, 2012Description: x, 317 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780857452177 (hardback : alk. paper); 0857452177 (hardback : alk. paper)Subject(s): Missions -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses | Conversion -- Christianity -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses | Missions -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses | Conversion -- Christianity -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses | Christianity and other religions -- CongressesDDC classification: 266.009/034 LOC classification: BV2120 | .B49 2012Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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, refelected on by a South Asianist / Richard Fox Young -- Santa Barbara Africana : beyond syncretism in Cuba / Joseph M. Murray -- 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.

Proceedings of a workshop held in 2008 at Georgetown University.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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, refelected on by a South Asianist / Richard Fox Young -- Santa Barbara Africana : beyond syncretism in Cuba / Joseph M. Murray -- 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.

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