Godroads: Modalities of Conversion in India - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1108490506 ISBN 13: 9781108490504

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

Investigates processes of conversion in India from a comparative, multi-disciplinary and theoretical perspective, between, within and across religious traditions.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Peter Berger (Ph.D. 2004) has been conducting research among indigenous highland communities of Odisha since 1996, working on topics such as cosmology, ritual, social structure and food. The present book is the result of an increasing interest in understanding cultural and religious change that has developed over the last ten years. His books include Feeding, Sharing and Devouring: Ritual and Society in Highland Odisha, India (2015), and he coedited Ultimate Ambiguities: Investigating Death and Liminality (2016), The Modern Anthropology of India (2013) and The Anthropology of Values (2010).

Sarbeswar Sahoo (Ph.D. 2010) teaches sociology in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He was Charles Wallace Fellow at Queen's University Belfast and Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at Max Weber Kolleg, Universität Erfurt, Germany, Germany. Sahoo received his Ph.D. from National University of Singapore. His books include Civil Society and Democratization in India: Institutions, Ideologies and Interests (2013) and Pentecostalism and Politics of Conversion in India (Cambridge, 2018).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1108490506
• ISBN 13: 9781108490504
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 310
• Herausgeber: Berger Peter, Sahoo Sarbeswar
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