Zones of Religion
Appropriating Gender: Women's Activism and Politicized Religion in South Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Patricia Jeffery, Amrita Basu
November 26, 1997
Appropriating Gender explores the paradoxical relationship of women to religious politics in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh. Contrary to the hopes of feminists, many women have responded to religious nationalist appeals; contrary to the hopes of religious nationalists, they have also ...
Border Fetishisms: Material Objects in Unstable Spaces
1st Edition
Edited
By Patricia Spyer
November 20, 1997
The essays in Border Fetishisms explore the cultural, commercial, political and erotic dimensions that distinguish fetish formations in fractured colonial and postcolonial spaces. Spanning such topics as Surinamese conversion to Christianity to shoplifting in Georgian England, to face the ...
Conversion to Modernities
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter van der Veer
December 05, 1995
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 ...