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Beyond Conversion and Syncretism: Indigenous Encounters with Missionary Christianity, 1800-2000

Beyond Conversion and Syncretism: Indigenous Encounters with Missionary Christianity, 1800-2000

Avid
Richardson, Miles

Hardcover

AnthropologyGeneral ChristianityGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0857452177
ISBN13: 9780857452177
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: Oct 1 2011
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.34
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The globalization of Christianity, its spread and appeal to peoples of non- European origin, is by now a well-known phenomenon. Scholars increasingly realize the importance of natives rather than foreign missionaries in the process of evangelization. This volume contributes to the understanding of this process through case studies of encounters with Christianity from the perspectives of the indigenous peoples who converted. More importantly, by exploring overarching, general terms such as conversion and syncretism and by showing the variety of strategies and processes that actually take place, these studies lead to a more nuanced understanding of cross-cultural religious interactions in general-from acceptance to resistance-thus enriching the vocabulary of religious interaction. The contributors tackle these issues from a variety of disciplinary perspectives-history, anthropology, religious studies-and present a broad geographical spread of cases from China, Vietnam, Australia, India, South and West Africa, North and Central America, and the Caribbean.

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