HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies Volume 39 Number 1 Article 9 July 2019 Praying for Peace: Family Experiences of Christian Conversion in Bhaktapur Ian Gibson Abilene Christian University,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/himalaya Recommended Citation Gibson, Ian. 2019. Praying for Peace: Family Experiences of Christian Conversion in Bhaktapur. HIMALAYA 39(1). Available at: https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/himalaya/vol39/iss1/9 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. This Perspectives is brought to you for free and open access by the DigitalCommons@Macalester College at DigitalCommons@Macalester College. It has been accepted for inclusion in HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@Macalester College. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Praying for Peace: Family Experiences of Christian Conversion in Bhaktapur Acknowledgements The author would like to thank David Gellner, Sondra Hausner, Joel Robbins, and Ramon Sarro for their comments on earlier iterations of this work. He would also like to thank the editors of HIMALAYA and the two anonymous reviewers for their valuable feedback. This article stems from a D.Phil. funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (Grant No.: ES/J500112/1), and a bursary from the University of Oxford’s School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography. This perspectives is available in HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies: https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/himalaya/vol39/iss1/9 Praying for Peace: Family Experiences of Christian Conversion in Bhaktapur Ian Gibson In Nepal’s public discourse, Christianity is negotiations.