The Christianity of Culture: Conversion, Ethnic Citizenship, and the Matter of Religion in Malaysian Borneo

by Liana Chua

Book Overview

In recent years, anthropologists have increasingly viewed Christian conversion as a form of rupture from the past. But what happens if the people with whom they work begin to speak a language of continuity and sameness with that past? 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230120466
• ISBN13: 9780230120464
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.3"