Home
the Christianity of Culture: Conversion, Ethnic Citizenship, and Matter Religion Malaysian Borneo
Barnes and Noble
the Christianity of Culture: Conversion, Ethnic Citizenship, and Matter Religion Malaysian Borneo
Current price: $99.99


Barnes and Noble
the Christianity of Culture: Conversion, Ethnic Citizenship, and Matter Religion Malaysian Borneo
Current price: $99.99
Size: Hardcover
Loading Inventory...
*Product information may vary - to confirm product availability, pricing, shipping and return information please contact Barnes and Noble
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.