Christian Moderns

副标题: Freedom and Fetish in the Mission Encounter

ISBN: 9780520246522

出版社: University of California Press

出版年: 2007-1-3

页数: 336

定价: USD 34.95

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

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 over such things as prayers, offerings, and the value of money challenges familiar notions about agency. Through its exploration of language, materiality, and morality, this book illuminates a wide range of debates in social and cultural theory. It demonstrates the crucial place of Christianity in semiotic ideologies of modernity and sheds new light on the importance of religion in colonial and postcolonial histories.

作者简介

Webb Keane is the George Herbert Mead Collegiate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan.

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