Religious conversion in India : modes, motivations, and meanings / edited by Rowena Robinson, Sathianathan Clarke.
Contributor(s): Robinson, Rowena
| Clarke, Sathianathan
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TextPublisher: New Delhi, India ; Oxford, England ; New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, [2003]Copyright date: ©2003Description: xv, 420 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0195663292 (alk. paper); 9780195663297 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Conversion -- Comparative studies | India -- ReligionLOC classification: BL639 | .R455 2003Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Modes of conversion to Islam / Rowena Robinson -- Diverting the Ganges : the Nizari Ismaili model of conversion in South Asia / Dominique-Sila Khan -- Trade, conversion, and the growth of the Islamic community in Kerala / Stephen F. Dale -- Who are the Bengal Muslims? : conversion and islamization in Bengal / Richard Eaton -- Arya shuddhi and Muslim tabligh : Muslim reactions to Arya Samaj proselytization (1923-30) / Yoginder Sikand -- Conversions to Jainism, Sikhism, and Buddhism : past and present / Rowena Robinson -- Conversion to Jainism : historical perspectives / Paul Dundas -- Conversion and Sikh tradition / Louis E. Fenech -- Conversion in Buddhism? / Torkel Brekke --
B.R. Ambedkar and navayana diksha / Gary Tartakov -- Transformations of caste and tribe / Sathianathan Clarke -- Spectres of conversion : transformations of caste and sect in India / Saurabh Dube and Ishita Banerjee Dube -- Assertion, conversion, and Indian nationalism : Govind's movement among the Bhils / David Hardiman --Conversion to Christianity / Sathianathan Clarke -- Sixteenth century conversion to Christianity in Goa / Rowena Robinson -- Conversion to Christianity in Tamil Nadu : conscious and constitutive community mobilization towards a different symbolic world vision / Sathianathan Clarke -- Christian conversion in the Punjab : what has changed? / John C.B. Webstar -- Christian conversion movements in North East India / Frederick S. Downs.