Godroads (eBook, PDF)

Modalities of Conversion in India
Redaktion: Berger, Peter; Sahoo, Sarbeswar

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Produktbeschreibung

Investigates processes of conversion in India from a comparative, multi-disciplinary and theoretical perspective, between, within and across religious traditions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108851312
• Artikelnr.: 70914350

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Piers Vitebsky; Introduction. Godroads: modalities of conversion in
India Peter Berger and Sarbeswar Sahoo; 1. The rise, growth and
significance of Sudra conversion movements in the Methodist mission,
Hyderabad, 1925-1947 Geoffrey A. Oddie; 2. Communism and the cross: a
caste-class trajectory of religious conversion in South India Ashok Kumar
M.; 3. Religious conversion as ethical transformation: a study of Islamic
reformism in rural West Bengal Fernande W. Pool; 4. Conversion versus
unity: the Basel Mission among Badagas on the Nilgiri Plateau, 1845-1915
Frank Heidemann; 5. Identity change and the construction of difference:
colonial and post-colonial conversions among the Sumi Naga of Nagaland,
Northeast India Iliyana Angelova; 6. Conversion to Christianity and
healing: the Naga of North East India Vibha Joshi; 7. Reshaping the
American evangelical conversion narrative in nineteenth century North India
Arun W. Jones; 8. Cultural transformations through performance arts in the
early twentieth century South India Rajalakshmi Nadadur Kannan; 9.
Conversion and Hindu-Christian conflict in Odisha and Rajasthan Sarbeswar
Sahoo; 10. Rupture and resilience: dynamics between a Hindu reform movement
and an Indigenous religion in Highland Odisha Peter Berger; Afterword.
India seen from Amazonia Aparecida Vilaça; Endnotes; Notes on contributors;
Index.