Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 The Rise, Growth and Significance of Shudra Conversion Movements in the Methodist Mission, Hyderabad, 1925–1947
- 2 Communism and the Cross: A Caste–Class Trajectory of Religious Conversion in South India
- 3 Religious Conversion as Ethical Transformation: A Study of Islamic Reformism in Rural West Bengal
- 4 Conversion versus Unity: The Basel Mission among the Badaga on the Nilgiri Plateau, 1845–1915
- 5 Identity Change and the Construction of Difference: Colonial and Postcolonial Conversions among the Sumi Naga of Nagaland, Northeast India
- 6 Conversion to Christianity and Healing: The Naga of Northeast India
- 7 Reshaping the American Evangelical Conversion Narrative in Nineteenth-Century North India
- 8 Cultural Transformations through Performance Arts in Early Twentieth-Century South India
- 9 Reservation and Religious Freedom: Understanding Conversion and Hindu–Christian Conflict in Odisha and Rajasthan
- 10 Rupture and Resilience: Dynamics between a Hindu Reform Movement and an Indigenous Religion in Highland Odisha
- Afterword: India Seen from Amazonia
- About the Contributors
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 April 2020
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 The Rise, Growth and Significance of Shudra Conversion Movements in the Methodist Mission, Hyderabad, 1925–1947
- 2 Communism and the Cross: A Caste–Class Trajectory of Religious Conversion in South India
- 3 Religious Conversion as Ethical Transformation: A Study of Islamic Reformism in Rural West Bengal
- 4 Conversion versus Unity: The Basel Mission among the Badaga on the Nilgiri Plateau, 1845–1915
- 5 Identity Change and the Construction of Difference: Colonial and Postcolonial Conversions among the Sumi Naga of Nagaland, Northeast India
- 6 Conversion to Christianity and Healing: The Naga of Northeast India
- 7 Reshaping the American Evangelical Conversion Narrative in Nineteenth-Century North India
- 8 Cultural Transformations through Performance Arts in Early Twentieth-Century South India
- 9 Reservation and Religious Freedom: Understanding Conversion and Hindu–Christian Conflict in Odisha and Rajasthan
- 10 Rupture and Resilience: Dynamics between a Hindu Reform Movement and an Indigenous Religion in Highland Odisha
- Afterword: India Seen from Amazonia
- About the Contributors
- Index
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- GodroadsModalities of Conversion in India, pp. 289 - 296Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020