Author: Viswanathan, Gauri
Title: OUTSIDE THE FOLD. Conversion, Modernity, and Belief.
Description: Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1998. 2e printing 332 pp. Pb. Outside 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. Cover curls up. Otherwise nice and clean copy.
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Title: OUTSIDE THE FOLD. Conversion, Modernity, and Belief.
Description: Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1998. 2e printing 332 pp. Pb. Outside 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. Cover curls up. Otherwise nice and clean copy.
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- Book number: 69939
- Book number: 69939