Godroads

Preface Piers Vitebsky; Introduction. Godroads: modalities of conversion in India Peter Berger and Sarbeswar Sahoo; 1. The rise, growth and significance of Sudra conversion movements in the Methodist mission, Hyderabad, 1925-1947 Geoffrey A. Oddie; 2. Communism and the cross: a caste-class trajectory of religious conversion in South India Ashok Kumar M.; 3. Religious conversion as ethical transformation: a study of Islamic reformism in rural West Bengal Fernande W. Pool; 4. Conversion versus unity: the Basel Mission among Badagas on the Nilgiri Plateau, 1845-1915 Frank Heidemann; 5. Identity change and the construction of difference: colonial and post-colonial conversions among the Sumi Naga of Nagaland, Northeast India Iliyana Angelova; 6. Conversion to Christianity and healing: the Naga of North East India Vibha Joshi; 7. Reshaping the American evangelical conversion narrative in nineteenth century North India Arun W. Jones; 8. Cultural transformations through performance arts in the early twentieth century South India Rajalakshmi Nadadur Kannan; 9. Conversion and Hindu-Christian conflict in Odisha and Rajasthan Sarbeswar Sahoo; 10. Rupture and resilience: dynamics between a Hindu reform movement and an Indigenous religion in Highland Odisha Peter Berger; Afterword. India seen from Amazonia Aparecida Vilaca; Endnotes; Notes on contributors; Index.

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