Can There Be Conversion Without Cultural Change?

This article takes a sociocultural anthropological approach to conversion. It asks not about the causes of conversion, but about the kinds of cultural changes conversion produces and the mechanisms by which it brings about such changes. Drawing on the author’s research among a recently converted gro...

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Main Author: Robbins, Joel 1961- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2017
In: Mission studies
Year: 2017, Volume: 34, Issue: 1, Pages: 29-52
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Papua New Guinea / Christianization / Cultural identity
RelBib Classification:CB Christian life; spirituality
CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations
KBS Australia; Oceania
Further subjects:B Conversion culture cultural change anthropology of Christianity values Christianity and culture secondarity duplex cultural formations
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