Christian Moderns

Freedom and Fetish in the Mission Encounter

AvWebb Keane

Häftad, Engelska, 2007

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2007-01-03
Mått:152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Anthropology of Christianity
Antal sidor:336
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520246522

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Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Webb Keane is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. He is author of Signs of Recognition: Powers and Hazards of Representation in an Indonesian Society (UC Press).

Recensioner i media

"Webb Keane's book demonstrates, once again, that nothing illuminates the puzzles of modernity as effectively as cross-cultural studies of colonial encounters. His careful, inter-disciplinary, and penetrating analysis of the semiotics of conversion to Dutch Calvinism in the Indonesian island of Sumba and his skillful blending of theological and anthropological issues will make this book a model for studies of religious conversion. It truly deserves a wide readership." - Dipesh Chakrabarty, author of Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference"

Innehållsförteckning

Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. Locating Protestantism 1. Religion's Reach 2. Beliefs, Words, and Selves 3. Religion, Culture, and the Colonies 4. Conversion's Histories Part II. Fetishisms 5. Umbu Neka's Conversion 6. Fetishism and the Word 7. Modern Sincerity 8. Materialism, Missionaries, and Modern Subjects Part III. Purifications 9. Text, Act, Objectifications 10. Money Is No Object Afterword References Index