Converting Cultures: Religion, Ideology and Transformations of Modernity (Social Sciences in Asia, Band 14) - Softcover

Buch 6 von 44: Social Sciences in Asia
 
9789004158221: Converting Cultures: Religion, Ideology and Transformations of Modernity (Social Sciences in Asia, Band 14)

Inhaltsangabe

This volume considers the concept of conversion as a tool for understanding transformations to modernity. It examines conversions to modernity within the Ottoman domain, India, China, and Japan as a reaction to the pressures of colonialism and imperialism.

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Dennis C. Washburn, Ph.D (1991) in Japanese Literature, Yale University, is Professor of Japanese and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College. He is the author of several studies and translations including Translating Mount Fuji: Modern Japanese Fiction and the Ethics of Identity (Columbia, 2006).

A. Kevin Reinhart, Ph.D (1986) from the Committee on the Study of Religion, Harvard University, is Associate Professor in the Religion Department, Dartmouth College. He has published on Islamic law, theology and ethics, and on late Ottoman-period Islam.

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