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Title:
The limits of meaning : case studies in the anthropology of Christianity
Author:
Engelke, Matthew Eric.
ISBN:
9781845451707
Publication Information:
New York : Berghahn Books, 2006.
Physical Description:
vi, 239 s. ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Meaning, anthropology, Christianity / When silence isn't golden : charismatic speech and the limits of literalism / Clarity and charisma : on the uses of ambiguity in ritual life / Rituals without final acts : prayer and success in World Vision Zimbabwe's humanitarian work / Nationalism and millenarianism in West Papua : institutional power, interpretive practice, and the pursuit of Christian truth / The limits of meaning in Fijian Methodist sermons / Converting meanings and the meanings of conversion in Samoan moral economies / Dusty signs and roots of faith : the limits of Christian meaning in highland Bolivia / Paranomics : on the semiotics of sacral action / Afterword : on limits, ruptures, meaning, and meaninglessness
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