The Christianity of Culture: Conversion, Ethnic Citizenship, and the Matter of Religion in Malaysian Borneo

In this richly contextualized study, Liana Chua explores how a largely Christian Bidayuh community has been reconfiguring its relationship to its old animist rituals through the trope and politics of "culture." Placing her ethnography in dialogue with developments in the nascent anthropology of Christianity, Chua argues that such efforts at "continuity speaking" are the product not only of Malaysian cultural politics, but also of conversion and Christianity itself. This book invites scholars to rethink the nature and scope of conversion, as well as the multifarious, yet distinctive, forms that Christianity can take.

Author: L. Chua
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 12/15/2011
Pages: 258
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780230120464

About the Author
Liana Chuais a lecturer in Anthropology at Brunel University.