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Conversion to modernities : the globalization of Christianity
Title
Conversion to modernities : the globalization of Christianity / edited by Peter van der Veer.
ISBN
0415912733
0415912741
1136661832
1136661905
1136661972
1315021994
9780415912730
9780415912747
9781136661839
9781136661907
9781136661976
9781315021997
Publication
New York ; London : Routledge, 1996.
Physical Description
1 online resource (287 pages) : maps.
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Notes
Papers presented at a conference held at the Research Centre of Religion and Society of the University of Amsterdam, June 1994.
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Summary
This collection of essays argues that religious perceptions of the self, of community, and of the state are transformed when Western discourses of modernity become dominant in the modern world.
Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Print version: Conversion to modernities : the globalization of Christianity. New York, New York ; Oxon, England : Routledge, ©1996 Zones of religion.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 04, 2024
Series
Zones of religion
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. The politics of Protestant conversion to Catholicism in seventeenth-century France / Keith P. Luria
2. A different road to God : the Protestant experience of conversion in the sixteenth century / Judith Pollmann
3. Nineteenth-century representations of missionary conversion and the transformation of Western Christianity / Peter van Rooden
4. Religious conversion and the politics of dissent / Gauri Viswanathan
5. The conversion of caste : location, translation, and appropriation / Nicholas B. Dirks
6. Materialism, missionaries, and modern subjects in colonial Indonesia / Webb Keane
7. Serial conversion/conversion to seriality : religion, state, and number in Aru, Eastern Indonesia / Patricia Spyer
8. Modernity and enchantment : the image of the devil in popular African Christianity / Birgit Meyer
9. Devils, Holy Spirits, and the swollen God : translation, conversion and colonial power in the Marist Mission, Vanuatu, 1887-1934 / Margaret Jolly
10. Comments on conversion / Talal Asad.
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