52 research outputs found
Nativistic Movements in Aboriginal Australia: Creative Adjustment, Protest or Regeneration of Tradition
Toward a Hermeneutics of Religious Experiences: Some Comparative Notes on the Ethnography of Psychedelics
Conversion, continuity, and moral dilemmas among Christian Bidayuhs in Malaysian Borneo
This is the author's final version of the article (under the title "Speaking of continuity... Religious change and moral dilemmas among Christian Bidayuhs in Malaysian Borneo"). The final publication is available from the link below. Copyright @ 2012 by the American Anthropological Association.The nascent anthropology of Christianity highlights rupture as central to conversion. Yet thick ethnography of a Bidayuh village in Malaysian Borneo reveals how conversion can also foster modes of thinking and speaking about continuity between Christianity and âthe old ways.â Through a study of the shifting moral and religious topography of a community in which three churches coexist alongside a few elderly animist practitioners, I argue that such discourses and practices of continuity highlight the pluralistic and sometimes contradictory nature of Christianization. At the same time, they generate an understanding of conversion as a temporal and relational positioning that encompasses both converts and nonconverts.William Wyse Fund, Evans Fund, Smuts Memorial Fund, and Sir Bartle
Frereâs Memorial Fund at the University of Cambridge and a Horniman/Sutasoma Award from the Royal Anthropological Institute
Testing, stretching, and aligning:Using âironic personaeâ to make sense of complicated issues
Irony and humor play an important role in both organizing and organizations, because they both help to collide and contrast ideas as well as mitigate and moderate criticism. Our empirical observations of a senior management team suggest participants frequently use verbal irony and aggressive conversational humor through âironic personaeâ â a cast of characters, real or imaginary â as a vehicle for pragmatically making sense of complicated topics. We show how ironic personae perform three functions: (i) testing new positions on topics in a non-committal way; (ii) stretching the frame of comparison of a group; and (iii) aligning shared understanding and commitment. Thus, our analysis sheds light on an underexplored and undertheorised pragmatic vehicle for the expression of humorous verbal irony and aggressive conversational humor
Koschorke, Ludwig, and Delgado, with Spliesgart, AussereuropĂ€ische Christentumsgeschichte (Asien, Afrika, Lateinamerika), 1450â1990
Lowe, Honoring God and Family: A Christian Response to Idol Food in Chinese Popular Religion
Van Klinken, Minorities, Modernity and the Emerging Nation: Christians in Indonesia, a Biographical Approach
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