The Christianity of Culture

Conversion, Ethnic Citizenship, and the Matter of Religion in Malaysian Borneo

• Author(s): L. Chua,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 258
• ISBN_10: 1137012722
  ISBN_13: 9781137012722
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Social Science / Anthropology / General , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social , Religion / History , Social Science / Sociology of Religion , Religion / Christianity / General , Social Science / Sociology / General , Religion / General , Social Science / Regional Studies ,

Description:... 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.