Converting cultures : : religion, ideology, and transformations of modernity / / edited by Dennis Washburn and A. Kevin Reinhart.
This volume fundamentally improves our understanding of processes like the secularization of society, and the growth of mass ideological movements, by looking upon these transformations to modernity as a species of conversion akin to religious conversion . The geographical areas covered by the contr...
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| Superior document: | Social sciences in Asia, 14 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Social sciences in Asia ;
v. 14. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (529 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Materials / D. Washburn and A.K. Reinhart
- 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
- 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 Juza And Tenko 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 / 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 Endō Shūsaku’s Silence / Dennis Washburn
- \'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 / D. Washburn and A.K. Reinhart.