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072 7 _aSOC002000
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082 0 4 _a291.4/2
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aViswanathan, Gauri
_eautore
245 1 0 _aOutside the Fold :
_bConversion, Modernity, and Belief /
_cGauri Viswanathan.
264 1 _aPrinceton, NJ :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2021]
264 4 _c©1998
300 _a1 online resource (328 p.) :
_b1 table 5 halftones
336 _atext
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tIllustrations --
_tPreface --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tPart One DISSENT AND THE NATION --
_tCHAPTER ONE Cross Currents --
_tCHAPTER TWO A Grammar of Dissent --
_tPart Two COLONIAL INTERVENTIONS --
_tCHAPTER THREE Rights of Passage: Converts' Testimonies --
_tCHAPTER FOUR Silencing Heresy --
_tCHAPTER FIVE Ethnographic Plots --
_tCHAPTER SIX Conversion, Theosophy, and Race Theory --
_tPart Three THE IMAGINED COMMUNITY --
_tCHAPTER SEVEN Conversion to Equality --
_tCHAPTER EIGHT Epilogue: The Right to Belief --
_tAppendix --
_tNotes --
_tSelect Bibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aOutside the Fold is a radical reexamination of religious conversion. Gauri Viswanathan skillfully argues that conversion is an interpretive act that belongs in the realm of cultural criticism. To that end, this work examines key moments in colonial and postcolonial history to show how conversion questions the limitations of secular ideologies, particularly the discourse of rights central to both the British empire and the British nation-state. Implicit in such questioning is an attempt to construct an alternative epistemological and ethical foundation of national community. Viswanathan grounds her study in an examination of two simultaneous and, she asserts, linked events: the legal emancipation of religious minorities in England and the acculturation of colonial subjects to British rule. The author views these two apparently disparate events as part of a common pattern of national consolidation that produced the English state. She seeks to explain why resistance, in both cases, frequently took the form of religious conversion, especially to "minority" or alternative religions. Confronting the general characterization of conversion as assimilative and annihilating of identity, Viswanathan demonstrates that a willful change of religion can be seen instead as an act of opposition. Outside the Fold concludes that, as a form of cultural crossing, conversion comes to represent a vital release into difference.Through the figure of the convert, Viswanathan addresses the vexing question of the role of belief and minority discourse in modern society. She establishes new points of contact between the convert as religious dissenter and as colonial subject. This convergence provides a transcultural perspective not otherwise visible in literary and historical texts. It allows for radically new readings of significant figures as diverse as John Henry Newman, Pandita Ramabai, Annie Besant, and B. R. Ambedkar, as well as close studies of court cases, census reports, and popular English fiction. These varying texts illuminate the means by which discourses of religious identity are produced, contained, or opposed by the languages of law, reason, and classificatory knowledge. Outside the Fold is a challenging, provocative contribution to the multidisciplinary field of cultural studies.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Nov 2022)
650 0 _aConversion
_vComparative studies.
650 0 _aConversion
_xComparative studies.
650 7 _aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General.
_2bisacsh
653 _aAdvaitism.
653 _aAnabaptists.
653 _aAnglicanism.
653 _aBengal Regulations.
653 _aBrahmo Samaj.
653 _aCalvinism.
653 _aCatholics.
653 _aDarwinism.
653 _aFabian socialism.
653 _aGorham judgment.
653 _aHouse of Commons.
653 _aJainism.
653 _aJesus Christ.
653 _aLegislative Council.
653 _aadministrative rationality.
653 _aage (chronological).
653 _aagnosticism.
653 _aalienation.
653 _aanarchy.
653 _abacksliding.
653 _abiographical fallacy.
653 _ablasphemy.
653 _achurch rates.
653 _aclass consciousness.
653 _acolonialism.
653 _acosmopolitanism.
653 _adalits.
653 _ademocracy.
653 _adisestablishment.
653 _aecclesiastical authority.
653 _aegalitarianism.
653 _aethnocentrism.
653 _aexcommunication.
653 _afeminism.
653 _afoundationalism.
653 _afundamentalism.
653 _agnostic mysticism.
653 _aheirship.
653 _ahistoriography.
653 _aiconoclasm.
653 _aideology.
653 _aindividualism.
653 _ainheritance.
653 _ajoint electorates.
653 _aknowledge-production.
653 _aliterary form.
653 _amaintenance.
653 _amaterialism.
653 _amiscegenation.
653 _anationalism.
653 _aoccultism.
653 _aorthodoxy.
653 _aostracism.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9781400843480?locatt=mode:legacy
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