TY - BOOK AU - Claerhout,Sarah AU - Roover,Jakob de TI - Religious conversion: Indian disputes and their European origins T2 - Critical humanities across cultures SN - 9781000571134 U1 - 322.10954 PY - 2022/// CY - New York, NY PB - Routledge KW - Conversion KW - Social aspects KW - India KW - Religious tolerance KW - Religion and politics KW - Religion and law KW - RELIGION KW - General KW - bisacsh KW - Religion, Politics & State KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE KW - RELIGION / General KW - RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / General N2 - This book re-examines the issue of religious conversion, which has been a site of conflict in India for several centuries. It discusses wide-ranging themes such as conversion, education, and reform in colonial India; the process and practices of conversion in Christian Europe; Gandhi, conversion, and the equality of religions; perspectives from Hindu nationalism, secularism, and religious minorities; religious freedom and the limits of propagating religion; and conversion in constitutional law, commissions, and courts, to chart new directions for research on religion, tradition, and conversion. Tracing developments from the 19th-century colonial era to contemporary times, the book analyses cultural background frameworks and the origins of religious conversion and its conceptualisation in Western Christianity. It further delves into how Indian culture and its traditions have shaped responses to conversion. Part of the Critical Humanities Across Cultures series, this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of critical humanities, religion, cultural studies, sociology of religion, comparative religion, philosophy, anthropology, theology, Indology, history, politics, postcolonial studies, critical theory, and South Asian studies UR - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003281269 UR - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003281269 ER -