Converting cultures: religion, ideology, and transformations of modernity
Crisis of "conversion" and search for national doctrine in early Meiji Japan /Trent Maxey --Civic faith and hybrid ritual in nationalist China /Rebecca Nedostup --Atmosphere of conversion in interwar Japan /Alan Tansman --Adamant and treacherous: Serbian historians on religious conversions...
| Summary: | Crisis of "conversion" and search for national doctrine in early Meiji Japan /Trent Maxey --Civic faith and hybrid ritual in nationalist China /Rebecca Nedostup --Atmosphere of conversion in interwar Japan /Alan Tansman --Adamant and treacherous: Serbian historians on religious conversions /Bojan Aleksov --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 /Şerif Mardin --Science without conscience: Unno Jūza and tenkō of convenience /Sari Kawana --Charismatic entrepreneurship and conversion: Oomoto proselytization, 1916-1935 /Nancy Stalker --Translation and conversion beyond western modernity: Tolstoian religion in Meiji Japan /Sho Konishi --Civilization and its discussants: Medeniyet and the Turkish conversion to modernism /A. Kevin Reinhart --Double bind of race and religion: the conversion of the Dönme to Turkish secular nationalism /Marc Baer --Body as the locus of religious identity: examples from western India /James W. Laine --Poetics of conversion and the problem of translation in Endō Shūsaku's Silence /Dennis Washburn --"Mass movements" in south India, 1877-1936 /Eliza E. 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. 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 |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record |
| Physical Description: | Online Ressource (xxii, 507 p.), ill. |
| ISBN: | 9047420330 |