Religious Conversion In India

Author : Sarah Claerhout,Jakob De Roover
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000571134

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Religious Conversion by Sarah Claerhout,Jakob De Roover Pdf

This book re-examines the issue of religious conversion, which has been a site of conflict in India for several centuries. It discusses wide-ranging themes such as conversion, education, and reform in colonial India; the process and practices of conversion in Christian Europe; Gandhi, conversion, and the equality of religions; perspectives from Hindu nationalism, secularism, and religious minorities; religious freedom and the limits of propagating religion; and conversion in constitutional law, commissions, and courts, to chart new directions for research on religion, tradition, and conversion. Tracing developments from the 19th-century colonial era to contemporary times, the book analyses cultural background frameworks and the origins of religious conversion and its conceptualisation in Western Christianity. It further delves into how Indian culture and its traditions have shaped responses to conversion. Part of the Critical Humanities Across Cultures series, this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of critical humanities, religion, cultural studies, sociology of religion, comparative religion, philosophy, anthropology, theology, Indology, history, politics, postcolonial studies, critical theory, and South Asian studies.

Author : Rowena Robinson,Sathianathan Clarke
Publisher : OUP India
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0195689046

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Religious Conversion in India by Rowena Robinson,Sathianathan Clarke Pdf

This volume brings together original essays by leading scholars of religion, history, and society refelcting upon the idea and practice of conversion in India.

Author : Goldie Osuri
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136302022

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Religious Freedom in India by Goldie Osuri Pdf

Drawing on the critical and theoretical concepts of sovereignty, biopolitics, and necropolitics, this book examines how a normative liberal and secular understanding of India’s religious identity is translatable by Hindu nationalists into discrimination and violence against minoritized religious communities. Extending these concepts to an analysis of historical, political and legal genealogies of conversion, the author demonstrates how a concern for sovereignty links past and present anti-conversion campaigns and laws. The book illustrates how sovereignty informs the making of secularism as well as religious difference. The focus on sovereignty sheds light on the manner in which religious difference becomes a point of reference for the religio-secular idioms of Bombay cinema, for legal judgements on communal violence, for human rights organizations, and those seeking justice for communal violence. This wide-ranging examination and discussion of the trajectories of (anti) conversion politics through historical, legal, philosophical, popular cultural, archival and ethnographic material offers a cogent argument for shifting the stakes and rethinking the relationship between sovereignty and religious freedom. The book is a timely contribution to broader theoretical and political discussions of (post) secularism and human rights, and is of interest to students and scholars of postcolonial studies, cultural studies, law, and religious studies.

Author : Laura Dudley Jenkins
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780812250923

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Religious Freedom and Mass Conversion in India by Laura Dudley Jenkins Pdf

Hinduism is the largest religion in India, encompassing roughly 80 percent of the population, while 14 percent of the population practices Islam and the remaining 6 percent adheres to other religions. The right to "freely profess, practice, and propagate religion" in India's constitution is one of the most comprehensive articulations of the right to religious freedom. Yet from the late colonial era to the present, mass conversions to minority religions have inflamed majority-minority relations in India and complicated the exercise of this right. In Religious Freedom and Mass Conversion in India, Laura Dudley Jenkins examines three mass conversion movements in India: among Christians in the 1930s, Dalit Buddhists in the 1950s, and Mizo Jews in the 2000s. Critics of these movements claimed mass converts were victims of overzealous proselytizers promising material benefits, but defenders insisted the converts were individuals choosing to convert for spiritual reasons. Jenkins traces the origins of these opposing arguments to the 1930s and 1940s, when emerging human rights frameworks and early social scientific studies of religion posited an ideal convert: an individual making a purely spiritual choice. However, she observes that India's mass conversions did not adhere to this model and therefore sparked scrutiny of mass converts' individual agency and spiritual sincerity. Jenkins demonstrates that the preoccupation with converts' agency and sincerity has resulted in significant challenges to religious freedom. One is the proliferation of legislation limiting induced conversions. Another is the restriction of affirmative action rights of low caste people who choose to practice Islam or Christianity. Last, incendiary rumors are intentionally spread of women being converted to Islam via seduction. Religious Freedom and Mass Conversion in India illuminates the ways in which these tactics immobilize potential converts, reinforce damaging assumptions about women, lower castes, and religious minorities, and continue to restrict religious freedom in India today.

Author : Rebecca Samuel Shah,Joel Carpenter
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506447926

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Christianity in India by Rebecca Samuel Shah,Joel Carpenter Pdf

Christianity has been present in India since at least the third century, but the faith remains a small minority. Even so, Christianity is growing rapidly in parts of the subcontinent, and has made an impact far beyond its numbers. Yet Indian Christianity remains highly controversial, and it has suffered growing discrimination and violence. This book shows how Christian converts and communities continue to make contributions to Indian society, even amid social pressure and violent persecution. In a time of controversy in India about the legitimacy of conversion and the value of religious diversity, Christianity in India addresses the complex issues of faith, identity, caste, and culture. It documents the outsized role of Christians in promoting human rights, providing education and healthcare, fighting injustice and exploitation, and stimulating economic uplift for the poor. Readers will come away surprised and sobered to learn how these active initiatives often invite persecution today. The essays draw on intimate and personal encounters with Christians in India, past and present, and address the challenges of religious freedom in contemporary India.

Author : Rowena Robinson,Sathianathan Clarke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN : UVA:X004778789

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Religious Conversion in India by Rowena Robinson,Sathianathan Clarke Pdf

This volume covers conversion in India to Islam, Christianity, Jainism, Buddhism, and Sikhism. It looks at the influences on conversion in a comparative perspective. The book seeks to look at the pre-British, British and post-Independence periods.

Author : Brojendra Nath Banerjee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Christianity
ISBN : UVA:X030120445

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Religious Conversions in India by Brojendra Nath Banerjee Pdf

Author : Vibha Joshi
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857456731

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A Matter of Belief by Vibha Joshi Pdf

'Nagaland for Christ' and 'Jesus Saves' are familiar slogans prominently displayed on public transport and celebratory banners in Nagaland, north-east India. They express an idealization of Christian homogeneity that belies the underlying tensions and negotiations between Christian and non-Christian Naga. This religious division is intertwined with that of healing beliefs and practices, both animistic and biomedical. This study focuses on the particular experiences of the Angami Naga, one of the many Naga peoples. Like other Naga, they are citizens of the state of India but extend ethnolinguistically into Tibeto-Burman south-east Asia. This ambiguity and how it affects their Christianity, global involvement, indigenous cultural assertiveness and nationalist struggle is explored. Not simply describing continuity through change, this study reveals the alternating Christian and non-Christian streams of discourse, one masking the other but at different times and in different guises.

Author : Sarbeswar Sahoo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108416122

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Pentecostalism and Religious Conflict in Contemporary India by Sarbeswar Sahoo Pdf

Conversion and the shifting discourse of violence -- Spreading like fire: the growth of Pentecostalism among tribals -- Taking refuge in Christ: four narratives on religious conversion -- Becoming believers: Adivasi women and the Pentecostal church -- Encountering the alien: Hindutva politics and anti-Christian violence -- Beyond the competing projects of conversion

Author : Eliza F. Kent
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195165074

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Converting Women by Eliza F. Kent Pdf

At the height of British colonialism, conversion to Christianity was a path to upward mobility for Indian low-castes and untouchables, especially in the Tamil-speaking south of India. Kent examines these conversions, focusing especially on the experience of women converts and the ways in which conversion transformed gender roles and expectations.

Author : P. D. Mathew
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UVA:X004321331

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Freedom of Religion and a "debate" on Religious Conversion by P. D. Mathew Pdf

With reference to the Indian scene.

Author : Sebastian C. H. Kim
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Conversion
ISBN : 0195677129

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In Search of Identity by Sebastian C. H. Kim Pdf

'Very few books have...discussed [religious conversion]in a pan-Indian context...This book both promises and delivers this very perspective... a landmark in studies on conversion...' -- Seminar'The vital importance of this timely and extremely well-written book cannot be stressed enough...Kim offers us a sober, carefully researched and painstakingly documented book on the emergence of the conversion issue during the last one hundred and fifty years in pre- and post-independentIndia...[T]he book...offers us a fine basis to continue the exploration of conversion and its discontents.' -- The book Review'Kim seeks to reveal arguments for and against conversions, wherein lies the appeal of his book... By highlighting contesting philosophies, Kim focuses on crucial conversion issues.' -- Hindustan Times'...Kim's work...prove[s] to be a handy reference both for policy-makers and scholars.' -- The TelegraphThis important volume examines the major arg uments on conversion between Hindus and Christians, and also among Christian theologians in both pre- and post-Independence India. It reveals and interprets the arguments for and against conversion and seeks to understand them within a historical andcontemporary perspective.Engaging and immensely relevant, this book will interest policy-makers, journalists, academics, and lay readers, besides being indispensable to researchers and students of sociology, religion, theology, history, politics, and law.

Author : Jutta Sperber
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110810790

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Christians and Muslims by Jutta Sperber Pdf

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Author : Andrew Buckser,Stephen D. Glazier
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0742517780

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The Anthropology of Religious Conversion by Andrew Buckser,Stephen D. Glazier Pdf

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Author : Peter Berger,Sarbeswar Sahoo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781108490504

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Godroads by Peter Berger,Sarbeswar Sahoo Pdf

Investigates processes of conversion in India from a comparative, multi-disciplinary and theoretical perspective, between, within and across religious traditions.