| Preface | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| 1 | The Anthropology of Conversion: An Introduction | 1 |
| 2 | Continuous Conversion? The Rhetoric, Practice, and Rhetorical Practice of Charismatic Protestant Conversion | 15 |
| 3 | Agency, Bureaucracy, and Religious Conversion: Ethiopian "Felashmura" Immigrants to Israel | 29 |
| 4 | Converted Innocents and Their Trickster Heroes: The Politics of Proselytizing in India | 43 |
| 5 | Comparing Conversions among the Dani of Irian Jaya | 55 |
| 6 | Social Conversion and Group Definition in Jewish Copenhagen | 69 |
| 7 | Conversion and Marginality in Southern Italy | 85 |
| 8 | "I Discovered My Sin!": Aguaruna Evangelical Conversion Narratives | 95 |
| 9 | Turning the Belly: Insights on Religious Conversion from New Guinea Gut Feelings | 109 |
| 10 | Constraint and Freedom in Icelandic Conversions | 123 |
| 11 | Mystical Experiences, American Culture, and Conversion to Christian Spiritualism | 133 |
| 12 | "Limin' wid Jah": Spiritual Baptists Who Become Rastafarians and Then Become Spiritual Baptists Again | 149 |
| 13 | Converting to What? Embodied Culture and the Adoption of New Beliefs | 171 |
| 14 | From Jehovah's Witness to Benedictine Nun: The Roles of Experience and Context in a Double Conversion | 183 |
| 15 | Converted Christians, Shamans, and the House of God: The Reasons for Conversion Given by the Western Toba of the Argentine Chaco | 199 |
| 16 | Anthropology and the Study of Conversion | 211 |
| Index | 223 |
| About the Contributors | 233 |