Conversion to ModernitiesPeter van der Veer 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. |
Contents
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1 The Politics of Protestant Conversion to Catholicism in SeventeenthCentury France | 23 |
The Protestant Experience of Conversion in the Sixteenth Century | 47 |
3 NineteenthCentury Representations of Missionary Conversion and the Transformation of Western Christianity | 65 |
4 Religious Conversion and the Politics of Dissent | 89 |
Location Translation and Appropriation | 115 |
6 Materialism Missionaries and Modern Subjects in Colonial Indonesia | 137 |
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Conversion to Modernities: The Globalization of Christianity Peter van der Veer Limited preview - 1996 |
Conversion to Modernities: The Globalization of Christianity Peter van der Veer Limited preview - 1996 |
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