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(ISBN:019566329-2 ~ Pub Year: 2003 ~ Pages:420 ~ Binding: Hardcover ~ Publisher: Oxford)
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The experience of conversion is viewed as a terrain of multiple and diverse possibilities that focus on new boundaries, identities, beliefs, and practices. Further, the volume explores a range of contexts in which novel forms of piety, and modes of religious dissent and desertion take shape.
The modes, motivations, and symbolic meanings which Jainism, Buddhism, Islam, Christianity, and Sikhism attach to religious conversion are identified and transformations of sect, caste, and tribe explored across space and time.
As an engagement of sociology, theology, and history in the lively and sometimes vitriolic discourse on religious conversion in India, this volume will be an important and significant resource for students, teachers, and researchers in these diverse fields.
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