Religious Conversion Indian Disputes and Their European Origins

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This book re-examines the issue of religious conversion which has been a site of conflict in India for several centuries. It discusses wide-ranging themes such as conversion education and reform in colonial India; the process and practices of conversion in Christian Europe; Gandhi conversion and the equality of religions; perspectives from Hindu nationalism secularism and religious minorities; religious freedom and the limits of propagating religion; and conversion in constitutional law commissions and courts to chart new directions for research on religion tradition and conversion. Tracing developments from the 19th-century colonial era to contemporary times the book analyses cultural background frameworks and the origins of religious conversion and its conceptualisation in Western Christianity. It further delves into how Indian culture and its traditions have shaped responses to conversion. Part of the Critical Humanities Across Cultures series this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of critical humanities religion cultural studies sociology of religion comparative religion philosophy anthropology theology Indology history politics postcolonial studies critical theory and South Asian studies. | Religious Conversion Indian Disputes and Their European Origins