"These rich and rewarding essays problematize a process central to Western notions of the making of modernity--the reformation of peripheral worlds under the impact of global religions. [The authors] challenge established disciplinary boundaries, providing sensitive accounts of the interplay of world-transforming movements and accounts of specific cultures and histories. In doing so, they cause us to rethink the ethnocentric, developmentalist assumptions often built into the very notion of "conversion" itself as a concept in our own scholarly tradition."--Jean Comaroff, University of Chicago
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"These rich and rewarding essays problematize a process central to Western notions of the making of modernity--the reformation of peripheral worlds under the impact of global religions. [The authors] challenge established disciplinary boundaries, providing sensitive accounts of the interplay of world-transforming movements and accounts of specific cultures and histories. In doing so, they cause us to rethink the ethnocentric, developmentalist assumptions often built into the very notion of "conversion" itself as a concept in our own scholarly tradition."--Jean Comaroff, University of Chicago
Imprint | University of California Press |
Country of origin | United States |
Release date | February 1993 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days |
First published | 1994 |
Editors | Robert W Hefner |
Dimensions | 230 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback - Trade |
Pages | 326 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-520-07836-9 |
Barcode | 9780520078369 |
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LSN | 0-520-07836-5 |