[PDF.24at] Outside the Fold - Conversion, Modernity, and Belief

Outside the Fold - Conversion, Modernity, and Belief

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 | #283155 in Books |  Princeton University Press |  1998-05-11 |  1998-05-31 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.89 x6.00l,1.12 | File type: PDF | 328 pages

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| The most penetrating study of conversion to date|By Novice|Dr. Viswanathan has examined conversion with an eye to the subjective experience and self-definitions of converts themselves, thereby throwing into sharp relief the institutional frameworks (legal, social, religious, colonial, native) which had heretofore labeled and defined conversion experiences both in colonized Indi| |Winner of the 1999 Harry Levin Prize, American Comparative Literature Association|Winner of the 1999 James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language Association|Winner of the 2000 Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize, South Asia Council of the A

Outside the Fold is a radical reexamination of religious conversion. Gauri Viswanathan skillfully argues that conversion is an interpretive act that belongs in the realm of cultural criticism. To that end, this work examines key moments in colonial and postcolonial history to show how conversion questions the limitations of secular ideologies, particularly the discourse of rights central to both the British empire and the British nation-state. Implicit in such ...

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