Introduction: the anthropology of Christianity / Fenella Cannell
The eternal return of conversion: Christianity as contested domain in highland Bolivia / Olivia Harris
Renewable icons: concepts of religious power in a fishing village in South India / Cecilia Busby
Possession and confession: affliction and sacred power in colonial and contemporary Catholic South India / David Mosse
Reading as gift and writing as theft / Fenella Cannell
Materializing the self: words and gifts in the construction of charismatic Protestant identity / Simon Coleman
The effectiveness of ritual / Christina Toren
Forgetting conversion: the Summer Institute of Linguistics Mission in the Piro lived world / Peter Gow
The Bible meets the idol: writing and conversion in Biak, Irian Jaya, Indonesia / Danilyn Rutherford
Scripture study as normal science: Seventh-day Adventist practice on the east coast of Madagascar / Eva Keller
Appropriated and monolithic Christianity in Melanesia / Harvey Whitehouse
Epilogue: anxious transcendence / Webb Keane.