Conversion to Christianity :  historical and anthropological perspectives on a great transformation / 
edited and with an introduction by Robert W. Hefner. 
 - Berkeley :  University of California Press,  1993. 
 - x, 326 p. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>World building and the rationality of conversion / Robert W. Hefner -- From the Jesus movement toward institutional church / Howard Clark Kee -- The local and the global in southern African religious history / Terence Ranger -- Of faith and commitment, Christian conversion in Muslim Java / Robert W. Hefner -- Conversion and colonialism in northern Mexico / William L. Merrill -- Conversion and community in Amazonia / Donald K. Pollock -- We are Ekelesia [sic] / John Barker -- Religion, morality, and prophetic traditions / Aram A. Yengoyan -- Why the Thai are not Christians / Charles F. Keyes -- The glyphomancy factor / David K. Jordan -- Boundaries and horizons / Peter Wood. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0520078357 (cloth : alk. paper) 0520078365 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Conversion--History<br/>Converts<br/>Missions--Anthropological aspects<br/>Religion and politics<br/>Religion and culture
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BV4916 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>248.2/4