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Religious Freedom and Mass Conversion in India

Author : Laura Dudley Jenkins
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812250923
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Religious Freedom and Mass Conversion in India written by Laura Dudley Jenkins and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2019-06-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hinduism is the largest religion in India, encompassing roughly 80 percent of the population, while 14 percent of the population practices Islam and the remaining 6 percent adheres to other religions. The right to "freely profess, practice, and propagate religion" in India's constitution is one of the most comprehensive articulations of the right to religious freedom. Yet from the late colonial era to the present, mass conversions to minority religions have inflamed majority-minority relations in India and complicated the exercise of this right. In Religious Freedom and Mass Conversion in India, Laura Dudley Jenkins examines three mass conversion movements in India: among Christians in the 1930s, Dalit Buddhists in the 1950s, and Mizo Jews in the 2000s. Critics of these movements claimed mass converts were victims of overzealous proselytizers promising material benefits, but defenders insisted the converts were individuals choosing to convert for spiritual reasons. Jenkins traces the origins of these opposing arguments to the 1930s and 1940s, when emerging human rights frameworks and early social scientific studies of religion posited an ideal convert: an individual making a purely spiritual choice. However, she observes that India's mass conversions did not adhere to this model and therefore sparked scrutiny of mass converts' individual agency and spiritual sincerity. Jenkins demonstrates that the preoccupation with converts' agency and sincerity has resulted in significant challenges to religious freedom. One is the proliferation of legislation limiting induced conversions. Another is the restriction of affirmative action rights of low caste people who choose to practice Islam or Christianity. Last, incendiary rumors are intentionally spread of women being converted to Islam via seduction. Religious Freedom and Mass Conversion in India illuminates the ways in which these tactics immobilize potential converts, reinforce damaging assumptions about women, lower castes, and religious minorities, and continue to restrict religious freedom in India today.

Religious Freedom in India

Author : Goldie Osuri
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136302026
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book Religious Freedom in India written by Goldie Osuri and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the critical and theoretical concepts of sovereignty, biopolitics, and necropolitics, this book examines how a normative liberal and secular understanding of India’s religious identity is translatable by Hindu nationalists into discrimination and violence against minoritized religious communities. Extending these concepts to an analysis of historical, political and legal genealogies of conversion, the author demonstrates how a concern for sovereignty links past and present anti-conversion campaigns and laws. The book illustrates how sovereignty informs the making of secularism as well as religious difference. The focus on sovereignty sheds light on the manner in which religious difference becomes a point of reference for the religio-secular idioms of Bombay cinema, for legal judgements on communal violence, for human rights organizations, and those seeking justice for communal violence. This wide-ranging examination and discussion of the trajectories of (anti) conversion politics through historical, legal, philosophical, popular cultural, archival and ethnographic material offers a cogent argument for shifting the stakes and rethinking the relationship between sovereignty and religious freedom. The book is a timely contribution to broader theoretical and political discussions of (post) secularism and human rights, and is of interest to students and scholars of postcolonial studies, cultural studies, law, and religious studies.

Christianity in India

Author : Rebecca Samuel Shah
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1506447929
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Christianity in India written by Rebecca Samuel Shah and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2018-11-08 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christianity has been present in India since at least the third century, but the faith remains a small minority. Even so, Christianity is growing rapidly in parts of the subcontinent, and has made an impact far beyond its numbers. Yet Indian Christianity remains highly controversial, and it has suffered growing discrimination and violence. This book shows how Christian converts and communities continue to make contributions to Indian society, even amid social pressure and violent persecution. In a time of controversy in India about the legitimacy of conversion and the value of religious diversity, Christianity in India addresses the complex issues of faith, identity, caste, and culture. It documents the outsized role of Christians in promoting human rights, providing education and healthcare, fighting injustice and exploitation, and stimulating economic uplift for the poor. Readers will come away surprised and sobered to learn how these active initiatives often invite persecution today. The essays draw on intimate and personal encounters with Christians in India, past and present, and address the challenges of religious freedom in contemporary India.

Religious Freedom and Conversion in India

Author : Aruthuckal Varughese John
Publisher : SAIACS Press
ISBN 13 : 9386549069
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (865 download)

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Download or read book Religious Freedom and Conversion in India written by Aruthuckal Varughese John and published by SAIACS Press. This book was released on 2017-08-28 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious Freedom and Conversion in India is a collection of essays that addresses the political and practical concerns about "religious freedom" and "religious conversion" in the Indian context. These essays were first presented in the SAIACS Academic Consultation in September 2015 at SAIACS, Bengaluru. The 14 papers represented here have all been revised and edited in the view of the discussions during the Consultation. they approach the topic from various angles such as historical, legal, biblical, theological, missiological and cultural. The purpose of the SAIACS Academic Consultation, and the aim of this book, is to stimulate, encourage and provide direction for the academic, evangelical and missional thinking in South Asia.

Religious Conversion

Author : Sarah Claerhout
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000571130
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Religious Conversion written by Sarah Claerhout and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-05-06 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Freedom of Religion and a "debate" on Religious Conversion

Author : P. D. Mathew
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Freedom of Religion and a "debate" on Religious Conversion written by P. D. Mathew and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With reference to the Indian scene.

Religious Conversions in India

Author : Brojendra Nath Banerjee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Religious Conversions in India written by Brojendra Nath Banerjee and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Religious Freedom in India

Author : Goldie Osuri
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (886 download)

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Religious Freedom in India

Author : Goldie Osuri
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780415665575
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (655 download)

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Download or read book Religious Freedom in India written by Goldie Osuri and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pentecostalism and Religious Conflict in Contemporary India

Author : Sarbeswar Sahoo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108416128
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Book Synopsis Pentecostalism and Religious Conflict in Contemporary India by : Sarbeswar Sahoo

Download or read book Pentecostalism and Religious Conflict in Contemporary India written by Sarbeswar Sahoo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-03 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conversion and the shifting discourse of violence -- Spreading like fire: the growth of Pentecostalism among tribals -- Taking refuge in Christ: four narratives on religious conversion -- Becoming believers: Adivasi women and the Pentecostal church -- Encountering the alien: Hindutva politics and anti-Christian violence -- Beyond the competing projects of conversion

Human Rights and Religious Conversion

Author :
Publisher : Anamika Pub & Distributors
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Human Rights and Religious Conversion written by and published by Anamika Pub & Distributors. This book was released on 2002 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles with reference to India.

Religious Freedom in the Global South

Author : Waheeda Amien
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783036525099
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Religious Freedom in the Global South written by Waheeda Amien and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to create a space for contributions on religious freedom in the Global South. The contributions speak to diverse themes underscoring religious freedom in the Global South including the impact of religious freedom on majority and minority religious communities, the relationship between religious freedom and the state, and the relationship between religious freedom and other fundamental human rights. Through the adoption of inter- and multidisciplinary approaches, and with reference to various religions such as Islam, Hinduism, Sufism, Sikhism, and Christianity, contributors address the themes across several regions in the world including Africa, South Asia, South-East Asia, South America, and Eastern Europe. Depending on the social, legal, and political context and by relying on diverse examples such as the Muslim call to prayer (adhan), domestic violence, animal sacrifice, religious conversions, abortion, the rights of LGBT persons, and religious education in the public sphere, the contributions illustrate how religious freedom can undermine or promote the rights of majority or minority religious communities, and how it can impact on the rights of marginalised members within minority religious communities.

Godroads

Author : Peter Berger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108490506
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Godroads written by Peter Berger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates processes of conversion in India from a comparative, multi-disciplinary and theoretical perspective, between, within and across religious traditions.

Anti-Christian Violence in India

Author : Chad M. Bauman
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501751433
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Anti-Christian Violence in India written by Chad M. Bauman and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does religion cause violent conflict, asks Chad M. Bauman, and if so, does it cause conflict more than other social identities? Through an extended history of Christian-Hindu relations, with particular attention to the 2007–2008 riots in Kandhamal, Odisha, Anti-Christian Violence in India examines religious violence and how it pertains to broader aspects of humanity. Is "religious" conflict sui generis, or is it merely one species of intergroup conflict? Why and how might violence become an attractive option for religious actors? What explains the increase in religious violence over the last twenty to thirty years? Integrating theories of anti-Christian violence focused on politics, economics, and proselytization, Anti-Christian Violence in India additionally weaves in recent theory about globalization and, in particular, the forms of resistance against Western secular modernity that globalization periodically helps to provoke. With such theories in mind, Bauman explores the nature of anti-Christian violence in India, contending that resistance to secular modernities is, in fact, an important but often overlooked reason behind Hindu attacks on Christians. Intensifying the widespread Hindu tendency to think of religion in ethnic rather than universal terms, the ideology of Hindutva, or "Hinduness," explicitly rejects both the secular privatization of religion and the separability of religions from the communities that incubate them. And so, with provocative and original analysis, Bauman questions whether anti-Christian violence in contemporary India is really about religion, in the narrowest sense, or rather a manifestation of broader concerns among some Hindus about the Western sociopolitical order with which they associate global Christianity.

The Anthropology of Religious Conversion

Author : Andrew Buckser
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742517783
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book The Anthropology of Religious Conversion written by Andrew Buckser and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents

Religious Conversion in India

Author : Rowena Robinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Religious Conversion in India written by Rowena Robinson and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume covers conversion in India to Islam, Christianity, Jainism, Buddhism, and Sikhism. It looks at the influences on conversion in a comparative perspective. The book seeks to look at the pre-British, British and post-Independence periods.

Conversion

Author : Faizan Mustafa
Publisher : Kanishka Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9788173915444
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Conversion written by Faizan Mustafa and published by Kanishka Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents A Detailed Analysis Of Legal Implications Involved In A Conversion. Both Hindu And Muslim Laws Have Been Discussed In Detail And The Contradictions In Judicial Pronouncements Have Been Highlighted At Length. Various Dimensions Of Re-Conversion Have Been Also Convered And Finally Broad Conclusions And Suggestions Have Been Offered.