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Title Converting cultures : religion, ideology, and transformations of modernity / edited by Dennis Washburn and A. Kevin Reinhart.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill ; Biggleswade : Extenza Turpin [distributor], 2007.

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 507 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Social sciences in Asia, 1567-2794 ; 14
Social sciences in Asia ; 14.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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Subject Conversion.
Conversion.
Secularism.
Secularism.
Religion.
Religion.
Irreligion.
Irreligion.
Religion and state.
Religion and state.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Washburn, Dennis C. (Dennis Charles), 1954-
Reinhart, A. Kevin, 1952-
Other Form: Print version: Converting cultures. Leiden ; Boston : Brill ; Biggleswade : Extenza Turpin [distributor], 2007 9789004158221 9004158227 (DLC) 2007277271 (OCoLC)85898554
ISBN 9789047420330 (electronic book)
9047420330 (electronic book)
9789004158221 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9004158227 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
Standard No. 10.1163/ej.9789004158221.i-507