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Outside 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 simultaneous 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.Through the figure of the convert, Viswanathan addresses the vexing question of the role of belief and minority discourse in modern society. She establishes new points of contact between the convert as religious dissenter and as colonial subject. This convergence provides a transcultural perspective not otherwise visible in literary and historical texts. It allows for radically new readings of significant figures as diverse as John Henry Newman, Pandita Ramabai, Annie Besant, and B. R. Ambedkar, as well as close studies of court cases, census reports, and popular English fiction. These varying texts illuminate the means by which discourses of religious identity are produced, contained, or opposed by the languages of law, reason, and classificatory knowledge. Outside the Fold is a challenging, provocative contribution to the multidisciplinary field of cultural studies.
Conversion --- India. --- England. --- England --- India --- Religion. --- Advaitism. --- Anabaptists. --- Anglicanism. --- Bengal Regulations. --- Brahmo Samaj. --- Calvinism. --- Catholics. --- Darwinism. --- Fabian socialism. --- Gorham judgment. --- House of Commons. --- Jainism. --- Jesus Christ. --- Legislative Council. --- administrative rationality. --- age (chronological). --- agnosticism. --- alienation. --- anarchy. --- backsliding. --- biographical fallacy. --- blasphemy. --- church rates. --- class consciousness. --- colonialism. --- cosmopolitanism. --- dalits. --- democracy. --- disestablishment. --- ecclesiastical authority. --- egalitarianism. --- ethnocentrism. --- excommunication. --- feminism. --- foundationalism. --- fundamentalism. --- gnostic mysticism. --- heirship. --- historiography. --- iconoclasm. --- ideology. --- individualism. --- inheritance. --- joint electorates. --- knowledge-production. --- literary form. --- maintenance. --- materialism. --- miscegenation. --- nationalism. --- occultism. --- orthodoxy. --- ostracism.
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Although it would appear in studies of late antique ecclesiastical authority and power that scholars have covered everything, an important aspect of the urban bishop has long been neglected: his role as demonologist and exorcist. When the emperor Constantine made Christianity the official religion of the realm, bishops and priests everywhere struggled to "Christianize" the urban spaces still dominated by Greco-Roman monuments and festivals. During this period of upheaval, when congregants seemingly attended everything but their own "orthodox" church, many ecclesiastical leaders began simultaneously to promote aggressive and insidious depictions of the demonic. In City of Demons, Dayna S. Kalleres investigates this developing discourse and the church-sponsored rituals that went along with it, showing how shifting ecclesiastical demonologies and evolving practices of exorcism profoundly shaped Christian life in the fourth century.
Demonology --- Church history --- Eglise --- History of doctrines --- Histoire --- John Chrysostom, --- Cyril, --- Ambrose, --- Antioch (Turkey) --- Jerusalem --- Milan (Italy) --- Antioche (Turquie) --- Milan (Italie) --- Religious life and customs. --- Vie religieuse --- Démonologie --- History of doctrines. --- Histoire des doctrines. --- Jérusalem --- Religious life and customs --- 27 "04/05" --- Apostolic Church --- Christianity --- Church, Apostolic --- Early Christianity --- Early church --- Primitive and early church --- Primitive Christianity --- Demonology, Christian --- Demons --- Evil spirits --- Kerkgeschiedenis--?"04/05" --- Cirillo, --- Cirillus, --- Cirilo, --- Cyrill, --- Cyrille, --- Cyrillus, --- Kiwregh, --- Kyrillos, --- Ambrogio, --- Ambroise, --- Ambrosio, --- Ambrosius Mediolanensis, --- Ambrosius, --- Ambrosius von Mailand, --- Amvrosīĭ, --- Aurelio Ambrogio, --- Aurelius Ambrosius, --- Aranyszájú, János, --- Chrysostom, John, --- Chrysostomo, João, --- Chrysostomos, Iō. --- Chrysostomos, Johannes, --- Chrysostomus, Joannes, --- Crisostomo, Giovanni, --- Crisostomo, Juan, --- Crisostomus, Ioannes, --- Giovanni Boccadoro, --- Giovanni Crisostomo, --- Hōhan Oskiaban, --- Hovhan Oskeberan, --- Hovhannēs Oskeberan, --- Iō. --- Ioan Gură de Aur, --- Ioan Zlatoust, --- Ioann Zlatoust, --- Ioannes Crisostomus, --- Iōannēs ho Chrysostomos, --- Ivan Zolotoustyĭ, --- Jan Chryzostom, --- Ján Zlatoústy, --- Jean Bouche d'Or, --- Jean Chrysostome, --- Jehan Bouche d'Or, --- Joan Gojarti, --- Joannes Chrysostomus, --- Joannes Crisostomus, --- João Chrysostomo, --- Johannes Chrysostomus, --- Johannes Goldmund, --- John, --- Jovan Zlatoust, --- Juan Crisóstomo, --- Pseudo-Chrysostome, --- Pseudochrysostomus, --- Yoḥanes ʼAfa Warq, --- Yūḥannā al-Dhahabī al-Fam, --- Yūḥannā al-Fam al-Dhahabī, --- Yūḥannā Fam al-Dhahab, --- Zlatoust, Ioan, --- Zlatoust, Jovan, --- Zlatoústy, Ján, --- Ἰωάννης, --- Іван Золотоустий, --- يوحنا الذهبي الفم --- يوحنا فم الذهب، --- Spirits --- Spiritual warfare --- Fathers of the church --- Great Apostasy (Mormon doctrine) --- Pseudo-Cyrillus --- Démonologie --- Jérusalem --- Mailand (Italy) --- Milano (Italy) --- Milão (Italy) --- Mediolanum (Italy) --- Comune di Milano (Italy) --- Ierusalim --- Иерусалим --- Yerushalayim --- Jeruzalem --- Quds --- Ūrushalīm --- Kuds --- Kouds --- Erusaghēm --- Bayt al-Maqdis --- Jeruzsálem --- Jerusalem (Israel) --- Jerusalem (Palestine) --- ʻIriyat Yerushalayim --- Ierousalēm --- Gerusalemme --- Baladīyat al-Quds --- Baladīyat al-Quds al-ʻArabīyah --- Jerusalem Arab Municipality --- Qods (Jerusalem) --- ירושלים --- القدس --- al-Quds --- قدس --- Jerusalén --- Antioch --- Antakya (Turkey) --- Antakiya (Turkey) --- Antiokhii︠a︡ (Turkey) --- Antiokheia (Turkey) --- Antakye (Turkey) --- Antakiyah (Turkey) --- Antioche (Turkey) --- Antioch on the Orontes (Turkey) --- Hatay (Turkey) --- Antiochea (Turkey) --- Antiochia (Turkey) --- Antiocheia (Turkey) --- Antiochia Syriae (Turkey) --- Ambrogio --- Ambroise --- Ambrose --- Ambrosio --- Ambrosius Mediolanensis --- Ambrosius --- Ambrosius von Mailand --- Amvrosīĭ --- Aurelio Ambrogio --- Aurelius Ambrosius --- 4th century. --- christian history. --- christian power. --- christianity. --- city life. --- civic. --- demonologist. --- ecclesiastical authority. --- ecclesiastical demonologies. --- ecclesiastical leaders. --- emperor constantine. --- engaging. --- exorcism. --- exorcist. --- government and governing. --- greco roman festivals. --- greco roman monuments. --- historical. --- history of christianity. --- late antiquity. --- late roman era. --- lively. --- page turner. --- political. --- roman empire. --- rome. --- urban bishoprics.
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