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Converting cultures : religion, ideology and transformations of modernity /
This volume considers the concept of conversion as a tool for understanding transformations to modernity. It examines conversions to modernity within the Ottoman domain, India, China, and Japan as a reaction to the pressures of colonialism and imperialism.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2007]
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| Colección: | Social sciences in Asia ;
v. 14. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Crisis of "conversion" and search for national doctrine in early Meiji Japan / Trent Maxey
- Civic faith and hybrid ritual in nationalist China / Rebecca Nedostup
- Atmosphere of conversion in interwar Japan / Alan Tansman
- Adamant and treacherous: Serbian historians on religious conversions / Bojan Aleksov
- Gender, conversion, and social transformation: the American discourse of domesticity and the origins of the Bulgarian women's movement, 1857-1876 / Barbara Reeves-Ellington
- Secular conversion as a Turkish revolutionary project in the 1930s / Ertan Aydin
- Some consideration on the building of an Ottoman public identity in the nineteenth century / Şerif Mardin
- Science without conscience: Unno Jūza and tenkō of convenience / Sari Kawana
- Charismatic entrepreneurship and conversion: Oomoto proselytization, 1916-1935 / Nancy Stalker
- Translation and conversion beyond western modernity: Tolstoian religion in Meiji Japan / Sho Konishi
- Civilization and its discussants: Medeniyet and the Turkish conversion to modernism / A. Kevin Reinhart
- Double bind of race and religion: the conversion of the Dönme to Turkish secular nationalism / Marc Baer
- Body as the locus of religious identity: examples from western India / James W. Laine
- Poetics of conversion and the problem of translation in Endō Shūsaku's Silence / Dennis Washburn
- "Mass movements" in south India, 1877-1936 / Eliza E. Kent
- From morals to melancholy: how a Japanese critic rejected Bakin and learned to love Shakespeare / Patrick Caddeau
- Hidden believers, hidden apostates: the phenomenon of crypto-Jews and crypto-Christians in the Middle East / Maurus Reinkowski
- True believers? Agency and sincerity in representations of "mass movement" converts in 1930s India / Laura Dudley Jenkins
- From ideological literature to a literary ideology: "conversion" in wartime Japan / James Dorsey.