Conversion to Modernities

Introduction, Peter van der Veer; Chapter 1 The Politics of Protestant Conversion to Catholicism in Seventeenth-Century France, Keith P. Luria; Chapter 2 A Different Road to God: The Protestant Experience of Conversion in the Sixteenth Century, Judith Pollmann; Chapter 3 Nineteenth-Century Representations of Missionary Conversion and the Transformation of Western Christianity, Peter van Rooden; Chapter 4 Religious Conversion and the Politics of Dissent, Gauri Viswanathan; Chapter 5 The Conversion of Caste: Location, Translation, and Appropriation, Nicholas B. Dirks; Chapter 6 Materialism, Missionaries, and Modern Subjects in Colonial Indonesia, Webb Keane; Chapter 7 Serial Conversion/Conversion to Seriality: Religion, State, and Number in Aru, Eastern Indonesia, Patricia Spyer; Chapter 8 Modernity and Enchantment: The Image of the Devil in Popular African Christianity, Birgit Meyer; Chapter 9 Devils, Holy Spirits, and the Swollen God: Translation, Conversion and Colonial Power in the Marist Mission, Vanuatu, 1887–1934, Margaret Jolly; Chapter 10 Comments on Conversion, Talal Asad;