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The Christianity of culture: Conversion, ethnic citizenship, and the matter of religion in Malaysian Borneo

This book centres on the entwinement of cultural consciousness, ethnic politics and Christianization in rural Bidayuh communities. It takes a much broader social, historical and political view than the article (VDY63921), showing how both post-independence developments in Malaysia and conversion to Christianity have shaped Bidayuhs’ social and moral lives and relations with the state, while facilitating the transformation of their old animist rituals into an officially recognized form of ‘culture’. The book engages with but does not confine itself to concerns in the anthropology of Christianity; it also speaks to the anthropology of cultural consciousness, ethnic politics and indigenous museology.