TY - BOOK AU - Hefner Robert W TI - Conversion to Christianity: historical and anthropological perspectives on a great transformation SN - 0520078357 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - BV4916 U1 - 248.2/4 PY - 1993/// CY - Berkeley PB - University of California Press KW - Conversion KW - History KW - Converts KW - Missions KW - Anthropological aspects KW - Religion and politics KW - Religion and culture N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 ER -