Vernacular Christianity : essays in the social anthropology of religion presented to Godfrey Lienhardt / [print]
edited by Wendy James and Douglas H. Johnson.
- New York : Lilian Barber Press, (c)1988.
- xiv, 196 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Introductory essay : on "native" Christianity Anti-clericism and national identity: attitudes towards the Orthodox Church in Greece Northern Sudanese perceptions of the Nubian Christian legacy Miracles of the people: attitudes to Catholicism in an Afro-Brazilian religious centre in Salvador da Bahia The Beatae: feminine responses to Christianity in sixteenth-century Castile The head-hunter and head-huntress in Italian religious portraiture Towards a genealogy of the concept of ritual Christian representations of the death of Captain Cook The coming of Christianity to a Nigerian Middle Belt community Wendy James and Douglas H. Johnson -- Roger Just -- Ahmed Al-Shahi -- John Ryle -- Carmelo lison-Tolosana -- Jaynie Anderson -- Talal Asad -- Brian Street -- Eva Gillies. The inadequacy of "deprivation" as a theory of conversion Gleaning: Shona selections from biblical myth Uduk faith in a five-note scale: mission music and the spread of the gospel Divinity and experience: the trance and Christianity in southern Ghana Dinka response to Christianity: the pursuit of well-being in a developing society Divinity abroad: Dinka missionaries in foreign lands Paul Heelas and Anna Marie Haglund-Heelas -- M.F.C. Bourdillon -- Wendy James -- George P. Hagan -- Francis M. Deng -- Douglas H. Johnson.
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Lienhardt, R. G.
Christianity and culture. Christian sociology. Christianity--Africa.