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Introduction Introduction
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Conversion to Native American Revitalization Movements Conversion to Native American Revitalization Movements
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Conversion to Christianity among Native Americans Conversion to Christianity among Native Americans
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Conversion and Commitment to Religious and Social Movements Conversion and Commitment to Religious and Social Movements
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Conversion to Modernities: The Rationality of World Religions Conversion to Modernities: The Rationality of World Religions
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The Anthropology of Mission and Modernity in Africa The Anthropology of Mission and Modernity in Africa
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The Anthropology of Mission and Modernity in Latin America The Anthropology of Mission and Modernity in Latin America
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The Anthropology of Protestantism and Modernity in Latin America The Anthropology of Protestantism and Modernity in Latin America
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Christianity in Culture: Conversion in Evangelical Anthropology Christianity in Culture: Conversion in Evangelical Anthropology
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Conversion Discourse and Language Conversion Discourse and Language
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Continuous Conversion in Pentecostalism Continuous Conversion in Pentecostalism
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Conversion in the Anthropology of Christianity Conversion in the Anthropology of Christianity
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Conclusion: Escaping from the Past into the Future Conclusion: Escaping from the Past into the Future
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Notes Notes
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Further Reading Further Reading
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Bibliography Bibliography
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4 Anthropology of Religious Conversion
Get accessHenri Gooren a Dutch cultural anthropologist who has published especially on conversion and on Pentecostalism, Protestantism, Mormonism, and Roman Catholicism in Latin America. After working at the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), he joined the Center IIMO for Intercultural Theology at Utrecht University in the research program Conversions Careers and Culture Politics in Pentecostalism: A Comparative Study in Four Continents (2003–2007). In August 2007, he became Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan; he received tenure in 2011. Palgrave-Macmillan published his book Religious Disaffiliation and Conversion: Tracing Patterns of Change in Faith Practices in 2010. Gooren conducted fieldwork research on the Pentecostalization of religion and society in Paraguay and Chile in 2010–12, sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation. He is currently working on a monograph to report his main findings.
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Published:01 May 2014
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Abstract
This chapter analyzes important approaches in anthropology that have dealt with religious change. The central question is how anthropologists identify and analyze the main factors in the conversion process. The chapter deals with the approaches in chronological order, describing their main authors and ideas, their conceptualization of religious conversion, and their methodologies. The main conclusion is that anthropologists have struggled to come to terms with religious conversion, but currently they are improving quickly. Most anthropologists have criticized modernity but have been unable to escape its gravitational pull. Another challenge for the future is developing comparative approaches to conversion to a host of religions in ways that include the indigenous understandings of the religions and explore their interactions with globalization processes. Anthropologists should capitalize on the main strengths of their discipline: their long-term perspective, their ethnographic approach, their theoretical flexibility, and their focus on the cultural context in understanding conversion cross-culturally.
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