Contemporary Anthropology of Religion: Conversion, Ethnic Citizenship, and the Matter of Religion in Malaysian Borneo

Chua, L.

In this richly contextualized study, Liana Chua explores how a largely Christian Bidayuh community has been reconfiguring its relationship to its old animist rituals through the trope and politics of "culture." Placing her ethnography in dialogue with developments in the nascent anthropology of Christianity, Chua argues that such efforts at "continuity speaking" are the product not only of Malaysian cultural politics, but also of conversion and Christianity itself. This book invites scholars to rethink the nature and scope of conversion, as well as the multifarious, yet distinctive, forms that Christianity can take.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2011-12-15

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349298709

DOI: 10.1057/9781137012722

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 258