Conversion to modernities : the globalization of Christianity / edited by Peter van der Veer. [print]

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Routledge, (c)1996.Description: 287 pages : maps ; 24 cmContent type:
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Contents:
Keith P. Luria -- A different road to God : the Protestant experience of conversion in the Sixteenth century Judith Pollmann -- Nineteenth-century representation of missionary conversion and the transformation of western Christianity Peter van Rooden -- Religious conversion and the politics of dissent Gauri Viswanathan -- The conversion of caste : location, translation, and appropriation Nicholas B. Dirks -- Materialism, missionaries, and modern subjects in colonial Indonesia Webb Keane -- Serial conversion ; conversion to seriality : religion, state, and number in Aru, Eastern Indonesia Patricia Spyer -- Modernity and enchantment : the image of the devil in popular African Christianity Birgit Meyer -- Devils, holy spirts, and the swollen God : translation, conversion and colonial power in the marist mission, Vanuatu, 1887-1934 Margaret Jolly -- Comments on conversion Talal Asad.
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Papers presented at a conference held at the Research Centre of Religion and Society of the University of Amsterdam, June 1994.

Includes bibliographies and index.

The politics of Protestant conversion to Catholicism in Seventeenth-century France Keith P. Luria -- A different road to God : the Protestant experience of conversion in the Sixteenth century Judith Pollmann -- Nineteenth-century representation of missionary conversion and the transformation of western Christianity Peter van Rooden -- Religious conversion and the politics of dissent Gauri Viswanathan -- The conversion of caste : location, translation, and appropriation Nicholas B. Dirks -- Materialism, missionaries, and modern subjects in colonial Indonesia Webb Keane -- Serial conversion ; conversion to seriality : religion, state, and number in Aru, Eastern Indonesia Patricia Spyer -- Modernity and enchantment : the image of the devil in popular African Christianity Birgit Meyer -- Devils, holy spirts, and the swollen God : translation, conversion and colonial power in the marist mission, Vanuatu, 1887-1934 Margaret Jolly -- Comments on conversion Talal Asad.

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