Godroads
Modalities of Conversion in India
- Editors:
- Peter Berger, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
- Sarbeswar Sahoo, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
- Date Published: October 2020
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108490504
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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.
Read more- Offers insights into the dynamics of religious change beyond the restricting confines of particular religious traditions
- Discusses relevant theories and analytical tools that can inspire and help researchers in their study of conversion and cultural change
- Includes different disciplines and thus provides each scholar concerned with the questions of conversion insights into questions of neighboring disciplines
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'… contains ten riveting historical and anthropological case studies of the several modes in which 'conversion' has taken place in various parts of India. Without employing the notion of conversion in a strictly 'religious' sense, the authors situate their respective chapters in terms of continuity, change, process, and event. Utilizing the metaphor of Godroads, the book offers a welcome and fresh perspective by critically engaging with the notion of conversion …' Mukesh Kumar, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
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- Date Published: October 2020
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108490504
- length: 306 pages
- dimensions: 236 x 157 x 23 mm
- weight: 0.52kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
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.
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