Converting cultures : religion, ideology and transformations of modernity /
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| Imprint: | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2007] |
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| Description: | 1 online resource (xxii, 507 pages) : illustrations |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Social sciences in Asia, 1567-2794 ; volume 14 Social sciences in Asia ; v. 14. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11186639 |
| Summary: | 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 contributors--the Ottoman domain, India, China, and Japan--provide striking examples of the dynamic force of conversion as a reaction to the tremendous pressures exerted by colonialism and imperialism and by the types of transformations constitutive of modernity.<br> <br> <br> <br> |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxii, 507 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789047420330 9047420330 9789004158221 9004158227 1281926329 9781281926326 9786611926328 6611926321 |
| ISSN: | 1567-2794 ; |