
Beyond Conversion and Syncretism
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"Through its historical exploration of the conceptual trajectories of conversion and syncretism, this book is an important theoretical addition to the library of any specialist or student of religion. Furthermore, the empirical examples on which the different contributions are rich, varied and amply engage the reader with a wide variety of historical and geographical contexts. This is a great book to delve into, especially for those interested in conversion." ? Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale"...offers some interesting and useful ethnographic material on the diversity of the missionary experience. It certainly proves its point that 'conversion' and 'syncretism' cannot be assumed to occur at all, let alone to occur in the same way in all times and places." ? Anthropology Review Database
"The volume delights by its broad geographical and denominational range...[it] offers a wealth of material for those interested in missionary and cultural encounters, conversion and the processes of domestication of Christianity. It also forms thought-provoking reading for scholars and students of historical and present-day Christianity." ? Anthropological Notebooks
"Meticulously researched, impeccably learned, and lucidly written, these essays push us to revisit the notions of 'conversion' and 'syncretism' as historical and theological interpretative categories of missions history. Thanks to the editors' and the contributors' labor we can now see why these two categories are much more complex and multidimensional than commonly assumed. No future history of Christian missions can afford ignoring this volume." ? Peter C. Phan, Georgetown University
"This is an excellent collection on topics of considerable current interest to scholars in history, anthropology and religious studies...a fine, nuanced collection of highly focused essays." ? Norman Etherington, University of Western Australia
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Acknowledgments
Introduction. Beyond Conversion and Syncretism
David Lindenfeld & Miles Richardson
PART I. CONVERSION AND ITS COMPLEXITIES
Chapter 1. Conversion, Translation, and Life-History in Colonial Central India
Saurabh Dube
Chapter 2. Conversion at the Boundaries of Religion, Identity, and Politics in Pluricultural Guatemala
C. Mathews Samson
Chapter 3. Christian Soldiers, Christian Allies: Coercion and Conversion in Southern Africa and Northeastern America at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century
Elizabeth Elbourne
Chapter 4. Horton's "Intellectualist Theory" of Conversion, Reflected on by a South Asianist
Richard Fox Young
PART II. SYNCRETISM AND ITS ALTERNATIVES
Chapter 5. Santa Barbara Africana: Beyond Syncretism in Cuba
Joseph Murphy
Chapter 6. Inculturation, Mission, and Dialogue in Vietnam: The Conference of Representatives of the Four Religions
Anh Q. Tran
Chapter 7. Concentration of Spirituality: The Taiping and the Aladura Compared
David Lindenfeld
Chapter 8. Acculturation and Gendered Conversion: Afro-American Catholic Women in New Orleans, 1726-1884
Sylvia Frey
Chapter 9. Colonial Constructs and Cross-Cultural Interaction: Comparing Missionary/Indigenous Encounters in Northwestern America and Eastern Australia
Anne Keary
Selected Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
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