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Vernacular Christianity : essays in the social anthropology of religion presented to Godfrey Lienhardt / edited by Wendy James and Douglas H. Johnson. [print]

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Lilian Barber Press, (c)1988.Description: xiv, 196 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780936508238
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BR115
  • BR115.J66.V476 1988
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Contents:
Wendy James and Douglas H. Johnson -- Anti-clericism and national identity: attitudes towards the Orthodox Church in Greece Roger Just -- Northern Sudanese perceptions of the Nubian Christian legacy Ahmed Al-Shahi -- Miracles of the people: attitudes to Catholicism in an Afro-Brazilian religious centre in Salvador da Bahia John Ryle -- The Beatae: feminine responses to Christianity in sixteenth-century Castile Carmelo lison-Tolosana -- The head-hunter and head-huntress in Italian religious portraiture Jaynie Anderson -- Towards a genealogy of the concept of ritual Talal Asad -- Christian representations of the death of Captain Cook Brian Street -- The coming of Christianity to a Nigerian Middle Belt community Eva Gillies.
Paul Heelas and Anna Marie Haglund-Heelas -- Gleaning: Shona selections from biblical myth M.F.C. Bourdillon -- Uduk faith in a five-note scale: mission music and the spread of the gospel Wendy James -- Divinity and experience: the trance and Christianity in southern Ghana George P. Hagan -- Dinka response to Christianity: the pursuit of well-being in a developing society Francis M. Deng -- Divinity abroad: Dinka missionaries in foreign lands Douglas H. Johnson.
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Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) G. Allen Fleece Library CIRCULATING COLLECTION Non-fiction BR115.C8V43 1988 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31923001520176

Introductory essay : on "native" Christianity Wendy James and Douglas H. Johnson -- Anti-clericism and national identity: attitudes towards the Orthodox Church in Greece Roger Just -- Northern Sudanese perceptions of the Nubian Christian legacy Ahmed Al-Shahi -- Miracles of the people: attitudes to Catholicism in an Afro-Brazilian religious centre in Salvador da Bahia John Ryle -- The Beatae: feminine responses to Christianity in sixteenth-century Castile Carmelo lison-Tolosana -- The head-hunter and head-huntress in Italian religious portraiture Jaynie Anderson -- Towards a genealogy of the concept of ritual Talal Asad -- Christian representations of the death of Captain Cook Brian Street -- The coming of Christianity to a Nigerian Middle Belt community Eva Gillies.

The inadequacy of "deprivation" as a theory of conversion Paul Heelas and Anna Marie Haglund-Heelas -- Gleaning: Shona selections from biblical myth M.F.C. Bourdillon -- Uduk faith in a five-note scale: mission music and the spread of the gospel Wendy James -- Divinity and experience: the trance and Christianity in southern Ghana George P. Hagan -- Dinka response to Christianity: the pursuit of well-being in a developing society Francis M. Deng -- Divinity abroad: Dinka missionaries in foreign lands Douglas H. Johnson.

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