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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Washburn, Dennis C. (Dennis Charles), 1954-

Reinhart, A. Kevin, 1952-

Series:

Social sciences in Asia 1567-2794 ; 14.

Social sciences in Asia, 1567-2794 ; 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conversion.

Secularism.

Religion.

Irreligion.

Religion and state.

Physical Description:

xxii, 507 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

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

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004158221

9004158227

OCLC:

85898554