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CHRISTIAN MODERNS
FREEDOM AND FETISH IN THE MISSION ENCOUNTER |
| By: |
Webb Keane |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0520246527 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780520246522 |
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| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
8 December, 2006 |
| Series: |
The Anthropology of Christianity No. 1 |
| Pages: |
336 |
| Description: |
Through its exploration of language, materiality, and morality, this book illuminates a range of debates in social and cultural theory. It demonstrates the crucial place of Christianity in semiotic ideologies of modernity and sheds light on the importance of religion in colonial and postcolonial histories. |
| Synopsis: |
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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3 b/w photographs, 1 line illustration |
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US |
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University of California Press |
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