Nation and Migration: The Politics of Space in the South Asian Diaspora
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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 modern Europe and in the colonized world.
In: The journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Band 27, Heft 1, S. 186-187
ISSN: 1467-9655
In: Asian journal of law and society, Band 8, Heft 1, S. 44-55
ISSN: 2052-9023
AbstractIn this paper, I want to focus on some aspects of the political process in India that have an impact on the treatment of religious minorities. Much of the discussion on multicultural jurisdictions deals with differentiated citizenship rights that allow religious groups to maintain their normative universe. This literature shows the tensions surrounding individual and group rights. I want to approach the question of religious freedom from a rather different angle. I want to first focus on the protection of bare life in the face of religious violence and then examine the issue of conversion from one religion to another. The issues of human security and conversion are linked in India, since Hindu nationalists see Muslims as forcibly converted Hindus who should be reconverted. To highlight the importance of majoritarian nationalism rather than political systems in the treatment of religious minorities, I offer a brief comparison with China.
In: Journal of religious and political practice, Band 2, Heft 1, S. 1-5
ISSN: 2056-6107
In: Cultural diversity in China, Band 1, Heft 2, S. 115-140
ISSN: 2353-7795
In: Journal of religious and political practice, Band 1, Heft 1, S. 113-113
ISSN: 2056-6107
In: Journal of religious and political practice, Band 1, Heft 1, S. 7-21
ISSN: 2056-6107
In: Cultural diversity in China, Band 1, Heft 1, S. 1-7
ISSN: 2353-7795
In: Comparative studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Band 33, Heft 2, S. 156-158
ISSN: 1548-226X
In: Third world quarterly, Band 33, Heft 4, S. 721-734
ISSN: 1360-2241
In: Social research: an international quarterly, Band 76, Heft 4, S. 1097-1120
ISSN: 0037-783X
In: Comparative studies in society and history, Band 50, Heft 3, S. 809-818
ISSN: 1475-2999
Theories of agency are central to any form of explanation or interpretation of human action in the social and behavioral sciences, including the study of history. In studies of religion, they appear to require even more reflection than usual, because of secular skepticism of religious understandings of agency, involving divine intervention or supra-human powers. The major problem with theories of agency is their immense range and complexity. They involve fundamental notions of emotions and intentions, of habits and social practice, of desire and passion, of passions and interests, of resistance and power, of freedom and un-freedom, of the distinction between subject and object, of interiority and exteriority. As such, they have complicated genealogies in different religious and philosophical traditions. Western philosophical traditions are among the many traditions that have wide-ranging theories about the self and agency and express them in a universalistic language.1These universalistic claims are perhaps common, but the history of European expansion has implied a universalization of Western thought, so that despite its provincial origin Western thought informs both the understanding and the self-understanding of other societies. From the start, one of the tasks of anthropology and history has therefore been to critique universalistic assumptions about, for instance, agency, by examining other ways of life and traditions. Not only is universalism as such being questioned; the universalization of ideas is being critically analyzed.
In: Ethics & international affairs, Band 22, Heft 1, S. 117-119
ISSN: 1747-7093
In: Ethics & international affairs, Band 22, Heft 1, S. [np]
ISSN: 0892-6794