In the first, previously unpublished, half of this important book, Webb Keane's main focus is the Dutch Calvinist missionaries who worked on the eastern Indonesian island of Sumba from the mid-1800s through the end of the twentieth century. Although these missionaries were not flamboyant, millenarian, politically subversive, or even particularly repugnant, Keane's masterful explication of their very ordinariness is designed to “help us see that quality of everydayness in which religion can have some of its most important consequences” (p. 30). In the second half of the book, he examines the ways in which key Calvinist ideas about agency, individuality, and history were received and contextualized. Drawing on previously published articles that have been substantially and thoroughly revised and integrated into the new text, in this half of the book, he also draws liberally for ethnographic illustrations from Africa, the Americas, and elsewhere in Asia. The resulting book interweaves ethnography,...

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