ISBN:
9789047420330
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xxii, 507 p)
,
ill
,
24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Social sciences in Asia 14
Parallel Title:
Print version Converting Cultures : Religion, Ideology and Transformations of Modernity
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Converting cultures
DDC:
201.72
Keywords:
Secularism
;
Religion and state
;
Religion
;
Conversion
;
Irreligion
;
Conversion
;
Secularism
;
Religion
;
Irreligion
;
Religion and state
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Ideologie
;
Nationalismus
;
Religion
;
Säkularismus
;
Kultur
Abstract:
This volume considers the concept of conversion as a tool for understanding transformations to modernity. It examines conversions to modernity within the Ottoman domain, India, China, and Japan as a reaction to the pressures of colonialism and imperialism
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction; PART ONE CONVERTING STATES: NATIONALISM, RITUAL AND RELIGIOUS IDEOLOGY; The Crisis of ""Conversion"" and Search for National Doctrine in Early Meiji Japan (Trent Maxey); Civic Faith and Hybrid Ritual in Nationalist China (Rebecca Nedostup); The Atmosphere of Conversion in Interwar Japan (Alan Tansman); Adamant and Treacherous: Serbian Historians On Religious Conversions (Bojan Aleksov); PART TWO CONVERTING INSTITUTIONS: EDUCATION, MEDIA AND MASS MOVEMENTS
Description / Table of Contents:
Gender, Conversion, and Social Transformation: The American Discourse of Domesticity and the Origins of the Bulgarian Women's Movement, 1857-1876 (Barbara Reeves-Ellington)Secular Conversion as a Turkish Revolutionary Project in the 1930s (Ertan Aydin); Some Consideration on the Building of an Ottoman Public Identity in the Nineteenth Century (Serif Mardin); Science Without Conscience: Unno Juza and Tenko of Convenience (Sari Kawana); Charismatic Entrepreneurship and Conversion: Oomoto Proselytization, 1916-1935 (Nancy Stalker); PART THREE CONVERTING SELVES: TRANSLATING MODERN IDENTITY
Description / Table of Contents:
Translation and Conversion Beyond Western Modernity: Tolstoian Religion in Meiji Japan (Sho Konishi)Civilization and Its Discussants: Medeniyet and the Turkish Conversion to Modernism (Kevin Reinhart); The Double Bind of Race and Religion: The Conversion of the Dönme to Turkish Secular Nationalism (Marc Baer); The Body as the Locus of Religious Identity: Examples from Western India (James W. Laine); The Poetics of Conversion and the Problem of Translation in Endo Shusaku's Silence (Dennis Washburn); PART FOUR CONVERTING OTHERS: HYBRIDITY AND THE PROBLEM OF SINCERITY
Description / Table of Contents:
""Mass Movements"" in South India, 1877-1936 (Eliza F. Kent)From Morals to Melancholy: How a Japanese Critic Rejected Bakin and Learned to Love Shakespeare (Patrick Caddeau); Hidden Believers, Hidden Apostates: The Phenomenon of Crypto-Jews and Crypto-Christians in the Middle East (Maurus Reinkowski); True Believers? Agency and Sincerity in Representations of ""Mass Movement"" Converts in 1930s India (Laura Dudley Jenkins); From Ideological Literature to a Literary Ideology: ""Conversion"" in Wartime Japan (James Dorsey); Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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