Conversion to modernities :  the globalization of Christianity /  [print] 
edited by Peter van der Veer. 
 - New York :  Routledge,  (c)1996. 
 - 287 pages :  maps ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/> Papers presented at a conference held at the Research Centre of Religion and Society of the University of Amsterdam, June 1994. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>The politics of Protestant conversion to Catholicism in Seventeenth-century France  A different road to God : the Protestant experience of conversion in the Sixteenth century  Nineteenth-century representation of missionary conversion and the transformation of western Christianity  Religious conversion and the politics of dissent  The conversion of caste : location, translation, and appropriation  Materialism, missionaries, and modern subjects in colonial Indonesia  Serial conversion ; conversion to seriality : religion, state, and number in Aru, Eastern Indonesia  Modernity and enchantment : the image of the devil in popular African Christianity  Devils, holy spirts, and the swollen God : translation, conversion and colonial power in the marist mission, Vanuatu, 1887-1934  Comments on conversion  Keith P. Luria --  Judith Pollmann --  Peter van Rooden --  Gauri Viswanathan --  Nicholas B. Dirks --  Webb Keane --  Patricia Spyer --  Birgit Meyer --  Margaret Jolly --  Talal Asad. 
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<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>95011009 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GB97-9245 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Conversion--Christianity--History--Congresses.<br/>Church history--Modern period, 1500---Congresses.<br/>Indigenous peoples--Religious life--Congresses.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BV4916.V419.C668 1996