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By L. Chua

ISBN-10: 0230120466

ISBN-13: 9780230120464

ISBN-10: 1349298700

ISBN-13: 9781349298709

during this richly contextualized examine, Liana Chua explores how a principally Christian Bidayuh neighborhood has been reconfiguring its courting to its previous animist rituals throughout the trope and politics of "culture." putting her ethnography in discussion with advancements within the nascent anthropology of Christianity, Chua argues that such efforts at "continuity conversing" are the product not just of Malaysian cultural politics, but in addition of conversion and Christianity itself. This booklet invitations students to reconsider the character and scope of conversion, in addition to the multifarious, but targeted, varieties that Christianity can take.

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