| Converting Cultures: Religion, Ideology and Transformations of Modernity Contributor(s): Washburn, Dennis (Editor), Reinhart, Kevin (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9004158227 ISBN-13: 9789004158221 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $240.35 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2007 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General - Social Science | Sociology - General - Social Science | Anthropology - General |
| Dewey: 201.72 |
| Series: Social Sciences in Asia |
| Physical Information: 1.23" H x 6.54" W x 9.38" (2.09 lbs) 510 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |