Outside the Fold
by Gauri Viswanathan
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Author: Gauri ViswanathanEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1998-05-11
ISBN: 0691058997
Number of pages: 328
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Book Review: The most penetrating study of conversion to date
Summary: 5 Stars
Dr. Viswanathan has examined conversion with an eye to the subjective experience and self-definitions of converts themselves, thereby throwing into sharp relief the institutional frameworks (legal, social, religious, colonial, native) which had heretofore labeled and defined conversion experiences both in colonized India and in the English metropole. A work of stunning insight and erudition, it should prove critical in any informed examination of conversion, including its causes and repercussions in all societies that are negotiating an often tortured relationship with modernity.
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