Missionary Impositions : Conversion, Resistance, and other Challenges to Objectivity in Religious Ethnography 9780739177891, 9780739177884

In this collection of essays, anthropologists of religion examine the special challenges they face when studying populat

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Missionary Impositions : Conversion, Resistance, and other Challenges to Objectivity in Religious Ethnography
9780739177891, 9780739177884

Religious conversion provides converts with an opportunity to embrace a community of faith and a philosophy that nurture

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Hinduism is the largest religion in India, encompassing roughly 80 percent of the population, while 14 percent of the po

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Religious liberty is usually examined within a larger discussion of church-state relations, but Thomas Kselman looks at

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Religious Freedom and Mass Conversion in India argues that, although the right to religious freedom is enshrined in Indi

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For minority faith groups living in nineteenth-century Iran, religious conversion to Islam - both voluntary and forced -

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Spatial Resistance: Literary and Digital Challenges to Neoliberalism utilizes various literary and digital artifacts to

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The essays in this book explore migrants’ motivations in support of an argument that to travel inspires a search for new

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Urban ethnography has produced some of the most influential and memorable studies in sociology since the discipline'

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