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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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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Part II
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"An excellent portrait of a mode of Christianity as minoritization and flight from state attempts to fix identity, ethnicity, and culture.This book is well worth attending to even for those working outside of either Christianity or Southeast Asia as a region." - Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
'The task Liana Chua sets herself in this carefully argued and ethnographically rich study is that of giving and account of Benuk religion and culture that does justice to all of these aspects (and more) of the life of the village . . . Full of careful arguments, and open-ended in its commitment to honoring the complexity of the world, it is a book anthropologists interested in any topic it covers will find they can read with great profit.' - Anthropology News
About the author
Liana Chuais a lecturer in Anthropology at Brunel University.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Christianity of Culture
Book Subtitle: Conversion, Ethnic Citizenship, and the Matter of Religion in Malaysian Borneo
Authors: Liana Chua
Series Title: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137012722
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-12046-4Published: 15 December 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-29870-9Published: 15 December 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-01272-2Published: 02 January 2012
Series ISSN: 2946-3475
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3483
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 258
Topics: Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, History of Religion, Sociology of Religion, Christianity, Area Studies