Conversion to Modernities (Zones of Religion)
by Peter van der Veer
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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 show more modern Europe and in the colonized world. show lessTags
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Peter van der Veer is Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Gottingen, Germany, and Distinguished University Professor at Utrecht University. He is the author of several books, including The Modern Spirit of Asia: The Spiritual and the Secular in China and India.
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- Nonfiction, Anthropology, Religion & Spirituality, History, Economics
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- 306.6 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social Behavior - Dating, Marriage, Divorce Religious institutions
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- BV4916 .C68 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion Practical Theology Practical Theology Practical religion. The Christian life Conversion literature
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