Christian Moderns: Freedom and Fetish in the Mission Encounter Volume 1

by Webb Keane

Book Overview

Across much of the postcolonial world, Christianity has often become inseparable from ideas and practices linking the concept of modernity to that of human emancipation. To explore these links, Webb Keane undertakes a rich ethnographic study of the century-long encounter, from the colonial Dutch East Indies to post-independence Indonesia, among Calvinist missionaries, their converts, and those who resist conversion. Keane's analysis of their struggles...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520246527
• ISBN13: 9780520246522
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.0"