Religious Conversion: Indian Disputes and Their European Origins (Critical Humanities Across Cultures)

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Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction: The Issue of Conversion in India
	Religious Conversion: Where Is the Quarrel?
		Two Clusters of Concerns
		Attitudes towards Conversion
	Confusion about Conversion
	Assuming Knowledge
	Conclusion
	Notes
Chapter 2: Conversion, Education, and Reform in Colonial India
	Challenging Interactions
		Divine Origin vs. Human Invention
		Virtue vs. Vice
		From Falsity to Truth
	Puzzling Rejoinders
		Alien Debates
		Reviling Another Religion
		Non-Interference
		A Plausible Defence
	Education, Reform, and Conversion
		Learning to Reason about Religion
		The Route of Education
	A Colonial Education
		Scientific Tempers
		Caste and Conversion
	Concluding Reflections
	Notes
Chapter 3: The Process of Conversio in Christian Europe
	The Process of Conversio
		Monasticism and Conversion
	Contours of Conversion
		Spiritual Change and Seeing Sin
		God and His Word
		Faith, Christ, and the Holy Spirit
		Conscience
		Spiritual Freedom
		Conversion, Not of This World
	The Deceit of Popes, Priests, and Monks
		Human Additions
		Idolatry
		Clergy and Laity
	Conclusion
	Notes
Chapter 4: Gandhi, Conversion, and the Equality of Religions
	Making Sense of Gandhi
	Tradition vs. Conversion
		Religion and Transformation
		The Question of Truth
	A Heuristic Tool
	Gandhi’s Conversion?
	Conclusion
	Notes
Chapter 5: Religious Freedom and the Limits of Propagation
	Religious Conversion in the Constituent Assembly
		Conversion as a Fundamental Right?
		The Problem of Propagation
	Patterns in the Conflict
		A First Approximation
		A Second Approximation
		Blindness on Both Sides
		A Culture Constituted by Tradition
		Tradition, Propagation, and Conversion
	Dead-Ends
		Propagation Revisited
		Incomprehension Revisited
		Conflict Revisited
	Coda
	Notes
Index