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The Road to Clarity
Seventh-Day Adventism in Madagascar, Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
ISBN/EAN: 9781403970763
Umbreit-Nr.: 9053289
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: xviii, 286 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
kartoniertes Buch
Erschienen am 15.11.2005
Auflage: 1/2005
- Zusatztext
- In recent years, millions of people have joined churches such as the Seventh-day Adventist which prosper enormously in different parts of the world. The Road to Clarity is one of the first ethnographic in-depth studies of this phenomenon. It is a vivid account based on almost two years of participation in ordinary church members' daily religious and non-religious lives. The book offers a fascinating inquiry into the nature of long-term commitment to Adventism among rural people in Madagascar. Eva Keller argues that the key attraction of the church lies in the excitement of study, argument and intellectual exploration. This is a novel approach which challenges utilitarian and cultural particularist explanations of the success of this kind of Christianity.
- Kurztext
- Provocative argument - Keller offers intellectual excitement as the key explanation of the attraction of this form of ChristianityOriginal - this is the first study of a non-mainstream church in MadagascarComplete study - this work is based on long-term participation among church members
- Autorenportrait
- EVA KELLER is a Research Fellow at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. She received her PhD in Social Anthropology from the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK, in 2002. She is currently carrying out research on a national park in Madagascar.