Conversion to Modernities

Conversion to Modernities
ISBN-10
1136661832
ISBN-13
9781136661839
Category
Social Science
Pages
287
Language
English
Published
2014-01-14
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Peter van der Veer

Description

Peter van der Veer has gathered together a groundbreaking collection of essays that suggests that conversion to forms of Christianity in the modern period is not only a conversion to modern forms of these religions, but also to religious forms of modernity. Religious perceptions of the self, of community, and of the state are transformed when Western discourses of modernity become dominant in the modern world. This volume seeks to relate Europe and its Others by exploring conversion both in modern Europe and in the colonized world.

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