Religious Conversion : Indian Disputes and Their European Origins Paperback / softback
by Sarah (Independent researcher) Claerhout, Jakob (Ghent University, Belgium) De Roover
Part of the Critical Humanities Across Cultures series
Paperback / softback
Description
This book re-examines the issue of religious conversion, which has been a site of conflict in India for several centuries.
It discusses wide-ranging themes such as conversion, education, and reform in colonial India; the process and practices of conversion in Christian Europe; Gandhi, conversion, and the equality of religions; perspectives from Hindu nationalism, secularism, and religious minorities; religious freedom and the limits of propagating religion; and conversion in constitutional law, commissions, and courts, to chart new directions for research on religion, tradition, and conversion.
Tracing developments from the 19th-century colonial era to contemporary times, the book analyses cultural background frameworks and the origins of religious conversion and its conceptualisation in Western Christianity.
It further delves into how Indian culture and its traditions have shaped responses to conversion. Part of the Critical Humanities Across Cultures series, this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of critical humanities, religion, cultural studies, sociology of religion, comparative religion, philosophy, anthropology, theology, Indology, history, politics, postcolonial studies, critical theory, and South Asian studies.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:174 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:29/01/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9781032250595
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:174 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:29/01/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9781032250595
