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020			_a9780691058993 (paperback)
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040			_aDLC _cDLC _dAE-DuAU _beng
049			_aTSAUD
050	0	0	_aBL639 _b.V57 1998
090			_aBL 639 .V57 1998
090			_aBL 639 .V57 1998
100	1		_aViswanathan, Gauri. _967749
245	1	0	_aOutside the fold : _bconversion, modernity, and belief / _cby Gauri Viswanathan.
264			_aPrinceton, N.J. : _bPrinceton University Press, _c1998
300			_axx, 332 pages : _c25 cm.
336			_2rdacontent _atext _btxt
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated _bn
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aOutside 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 stimultaneous and, she asserts, linked events: the legal emancipation of religious minorities in England and the acculturation of colonial subjects to British rule. The author views these two apparently disparate events as part of a common pattern of national consolidation that produced the English state. She seeks to explain why resistance, in both cases, frequently took the form of religious conversion, especially to "minority" or alternative religions. Confronting the general characterization of conversion as assimilative and annihilating of identity, Viswanathan demonstrates that a willful change of religion can be seen instead as an act of opposition. Outside the Fold concludes that, as a form of cultural crossing, conversion comes to represent a vital release into difference.
650		0	_aConversion _vComparative studies. _967750
650		0	_aReligion and politics _vComparative studies. _967751
650		0	_aReligion and culture _vComparative studies. _967752
651		0	_aIndia _xReligion _y19th century. _967753
651		0	_aIndia _xReligion _y20th century. _967754
651		0	_aEngland _xReligion. _967755
942			_cBOOK _2lcc
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