Format:
XXII, 507 S.
,
Ill.
,
24 cm
ISBN:
9789004158221
Series Statement:
Social sciences in Asia 14
Content:
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
Note:
Contents -- Introduction -- Part One: Converting States: Nationalism, Ritual and Religious Ideology. -- The Crisis of "Conversion" and Search for National Doctrine in Early Meiji Japan / Trent Maxey. -- Civic Faith and Hybrid Ritual in Nationalist China / Rebecca Nedostup. -- The Atmosphere of Conversion in Interwar Japan / Alan Tansman. -- Adamant and Treacherous: Serbian Historians On Religious Conversions / Bojan Aleksov. -- Part Two: Converting Institutions: Education, Media and Mass Movements. -- 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.
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Some Consideration on the Building of an Ottoman Public Identity in the Nineteenth Century / Şerif Mardin. -- Science Without Conscience: Unno Juza and Tenko of Convenience / Sari Kawana. -- Charismatic Entrepreneurship and Conversion: Oomoto Proselytization, 1916 - 1935 / Nancy Stalker. -- Part Three: Converting Selves: Translating Modern identity. -- Translation and Conversion Beyond Western Modernity: Tolstoian Religion in Meiji Japan / Sho Konishi. -- Civilization and Its Discussants: Medeniyet and the Turkish Conversion to Modernism / Kevin Reinhart. -- The Double Bind of Race and Religion: The Conversion of the Dönme to Turkish Secular Nationalism / Marc Baer. -- The Body as the Locus of Religious Identity: Examples from Western India / James W. Laine. -- The Poetics of Conversion and the Problem of Translation in Endo Shusaku's Silence / Dennis Washburn. -- Part Four: Converting Others: Hybridity and the problem of sincerity. -- "Mass Movements" in South India, 1877 - 1936 / Eliza F. Kent. -- From Morals to Melancholy: How a Japanese Critic Rejected Bakunin 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. -- Index
Language:
English
Subjects:
Theology
,
Sociology
Keywords:
Konversion
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;
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Japan
;
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;
Indien
;
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Geschichte
;
Naher Osten
;
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;
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;
Asien
;
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;
Geschichte
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
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