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Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 23:50:54
From: Rachel Tonkin [rtonkin at cambridge.org]
Subject: Godroads: Berger, Sahoo (eds.)

 


Title: Godroads 
Subtitle: Modalities of Conversion in India 
Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/anthropology/social-and-cultural-anthropology/godroads-modalities-conversion-india?format=HB 


Editor: Peter Berger
Editor: Sarbeswar Sahoo

Hardback: ISBN:  9781108490504 Pages: 306 Price: U.S. $ 99.99
Hardback: ISBN:  9781108490504 Pages: 306 Price: U.K. £ 75.00


Abstract:

Dynamics of conversion and religious change more generally are extremely
complex, yet it is crucial for contemporary societies to understand them. This
volume contributes to this understanding by focussing on the processes and
modalities of conversion within, between and across various religious
traditions (Hinduism, Islamic Reformism, Christianity, indigenous religions)
from a multi-disciplinary perspective, including anthropology, sociology,
religious studies, history and theology. While the book deals with Indian case
studies, the introduction, preface (by Piers Vitebsky) and afterword (by
Aparecida Vilaça) also offer a comparative perspective linking the Indian
situation to contexts of conversion in other parts of the world. The
introduction not only provides an overview of important research on conversion
in India, it also intends to advance the general theoretical reflection on
conversion, considers analytical tools for further research and discusses the
work of important theorists such as Pierre Bourdieu, Joel Robbins and Marshall
Sahlins who are not generally referred to in debates on conversion in India.

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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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