Converting cultures : religion, ideology and transformations of modernity /

Converting cultures : religion, ideology and transformations of modernity /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2007]
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.
Subject:
Conversion.
Secularism.
Religion.
Irreligion.
Religion and state.
Conversion.
Irreligion.
Religion.
Religion and state.
Secularism.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11186639
Hidden Bibliographic Details
Other authors / contributors:Washburn, Dennis C. (Dennis Charles), 1954- editor.
Reinhart, A. Kevin, 1952- editor.
ISBN:9789047420330
9047420330
9789004158221
9004158227
1281926329
9781281926326
9786611926328
6611926321
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 15, 2020).
Summary: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.
Other form:Print version: Converting cultures. Leiden ; Boston : Brill ; Biggleswade : Extenza Turpin [distributor], 2007 9789004158221 9004158227
Standard no.:10.1163/ej.9789004158221.i-507
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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