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Publisher: Oxford University Press, New Delhi |
| Author: Edited By: Rowena Robinson & Sathianathan Clarke | |
| Language: English | |
| Pages: 420 | |
| Cover: Paperback | |
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9.0 inch X 6.0 inch |
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Weight 400 gm |
| Edition: 2007 | |
| ISBN: 9780195689044 | |
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IDF878 |
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From the Jacket:
This volume brings together important and highly original essays by leading scholars of religion, history, and society reflecting upon the idea and practice of conversion in India. The experience of conversion is viewed as a terrain of multiple and diverse possibilities that focus on new boundaries, identities, beliefs, and pratices. Further, the volume novel forms of piety, and modes of religious dissent and desertion take shape.
The modes, motivations, and symbolic meanings which Jainism, Buddhism, Islam, Christianity, and Sikhism attach to religious conversion are identified and transformations of sect, caste, and tribe explored across space and time.
As an engagement of sociology, theology, and history in the lively and sometimes vitriolic discourse on religious conversion in India, this volume will be an important and significant resource for students, teachers, and researchers in these diverse fields.
About the Author:
Rowena Robinson is Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai.
Sathianathan Clarke is Associate Professor of Theology and Ethics at the United Theological Seminary at Bangalore, and is also a Visiting Associate Professor at the Harvard University Divinity School.
| Acknowledgements | xi | |
| Contributors | xiii | |
| Introduction | 1 | |
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Rowena Robinson Modes of Conversion to Islam |
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Dominique-Sila Khan Diverting the Ganges: The Nizari Ismaili Model of Conversion in South Asia |
29 | |
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Stephen F. Dale Trade, Conversion, and the Growth of the Islamic Community in Kerala |
54 | |
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Richard Eaton Who are the Bengal Muslims? Conversion and Islamization in Bengal |
75 | |
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Yoginder Sikand Arya Shuddhi and Muslim Tabligh: Muslim Reactions to Arya Samaj Proselytization (1923-30) |
98 | |
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Rowena Robinson Conversion to Jainism, Sikhism, and Buddhism: Past and Present |
119 | |
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Paul Dundas Conversion to Jainism: Historical Perspectives |
125 | |
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Louis E. Fenech Conversion and Sikh Tradition |
149 | |
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Torkel Brekke Conversion in Buddhism? |
181 | |
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Gary Tartakov B. R. Ambedkar and the Navayana Diksha |
192 | |
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Sathianathan Clarke Transformations of Caste and Tribe |
217 | |
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Saurabh Dube and Ishita Banerjee Dube Spectres of Conversion: Transformations of Case and Sect in India |
222 | |
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David Hardiman Assertion, Conversion, and Indian Nationalism: Govind's Movement among the Bbils |
255 | |
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Sathianathan Clarke Conversion to Christianity |
285 | |
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Rowena Robinson Sixteenth Century Conversions to Christianity in Goa |
291 | |
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Sathianathan Clarke Conversion to Christianity in Tamil Nadu: Conscious and Constitutive Community Mobilization Towards a Different Symbolic World Vision |
323 | |
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John C. B. Webster Christian Conversion in the Punjab: What has Changed? |
351 | |
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Frederick S. Downs Christian Conversion Movements in North East India |
381 | |
| Index | 401 | |
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