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Conversion to Modernities

By Peter van der Veer

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
1995
ISBN
0415912733, 9780415912730
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7040441 bytes)
Edition
Hardcover
Pages
287\296
Time added
2019-05-28 07:04:33

Description

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.

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