The Christianity of Culture Conversion, Ethnic Citizenship, and the

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 dev

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THE CHRISTIANITY OF CULTURE

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