ISBN:
978-90-041-5822-1
Language:
English
Pages:
XXII, 507 S. :
,
Ill. ;
,
24 cm.
Series Statement:
Social sciences in Asia 14
Series Statement:
Social sciences in Asia
DDC:
201.72
Keywords:
Geschichte
;
Conversion
;
Secularism
;
Religion
;
Irreligion
;
Religion and state
;
Konversion
;
Osmanisches Reich.
;
Balkanhalbinsel.
;
Japan.
;
Indien.
;
Naher Osten.
;
Asien.
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Konversion
;
Konversion
;
Geschichte
;
Konversion
;
Geschichte
;
Konversion
;
Geschichte
;
Konversion
;
Geschichte
;
Konversion
;
Geschichte
;
Konversion
;
Geschichte
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
Note:
Some Consideration on the Building of an Ottoman Public Identity in the Nineteenth Century / Şerif 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. -- 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. -- "Mass Movements" in South India, 1877 - 1936 / Eliza F. Kent. -- From Morals to Melancholy: How a Japanese Critic Rejected Bakunin 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
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