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Author Dudley-Jenkins, Laura, author

Title Religious freedom and mass conversion in India / Laura Dudley Jenkins
Edition 1st edition
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Pennsylvania studies in human rights
Pennsylvania studies in human rights.
Contents Introduction: Religious freedom and the right to convert -- Mass movement Christians : religious and social mobility -- Ambedkarite Buddhists : religious and political mobility -- Mizo Jews : religious and spatial mobility -- Prosecution : anticonversion legislation -- Prevention : losing affirmative action -- Persecution : the love jihad rumor -- Conclusion: A more equal freedom
Summary Religious Freedom and Mass Conversion in India argues that, although the right to religious freedom is enshrined in India's constitution, mass conversions to minority religions have complicated the practice of this right, which is increasingly invoked to restrict, rather than defend, the freedoms of minorities and women
Subject Freedom of religion -- India -- History -- 20th century
Freedom of religion -- India -- History -- 21st century
Conversion -- Government policy -- India
Proselytizing -- Government policy -- India
Religious minorities -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- India
Dalits -- Civil rights -- India
Narrative inquiry (Research method) -- India
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Human Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights
Dalits -- Civil rights
Freedom of religion
Narrative inquiry (Research method)
Religious minorities -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Scheduled tribes in India -- Civil rights
SUBJECT India -- Scheduled tribes -- Civil rights
Subject India
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780812296006
0812296001