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1 online resource (296 pages) |
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Zones of Religion |
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Zones of religion.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. The Politics of Protestant Conversion to Catholicism in Seventeenth-Century France; 2. A Different Road to God: The Protestant Experience of Conversion in the Sixteenth Century; 3. Nineteenth-Century Representations of Missionary Conversion and the Transformation of Western Christianity; 4. Religious Conversion and the Politics of Dissent; 5. The Conversion of Caste: Location, Translation, and Appropriation; 6. Materialism, Missionaries, and Modern Subjects in Colonial Indonesia |
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7. Serial Conversion/Conversion to Seriality: Religion, State, and Number in Aru, Eastern Indonesia8. Modernity and Enchantment: The Image of the Devil in Popular African Christianity; 9. Devils, Holy Spirits, and the Swollen God: Translation, Conversion and Colonial Power in the Marist Mission, Vanuatu, 1887-1934; 10. Comments on Conversion; Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
Peter van der Veer has gathered together a groundbreaking collection of essays that suggests that conversion to forms of Christianity in the modern period is not only a conversion to modern forms of these religions, but also to religious forms of modernity. Religious perceptions of the self, of community, and of the state are transformed when Western discourses of modernity become dominant in the modern world. This volume seeks to relate Europe and its Others by exploring conversion both in modern Europe and in the colonized world |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Conversion -- Christianity -- History -- Congresses
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Church history -- Modern period, 1500- -- Congresses
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Indigenous peoples -- Religious life -- Congresses
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Church history
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Church history -- Modern period
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Conversion -- Christianity
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136661907 |
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1136661905 |
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1306343488 |
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9781306343480 |
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9781136661839 |
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1136661832 |
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