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Can I read Conversion to modernities : the globalization of Christianity on EtoBox?
Conversion to modernities : the globalization of Christianity by Peter van der Veer (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Conversion to modernities : the globalization of Christianity about?
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 community, and of the state are transformed when Western discourses of modernity become dominant in the modern world. This volume seeks to relate Europe and its Others by exploring conversion both in modern Europe and in the colonized world.
Who reads Conversion to modernities : the globalization of Christianity?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Peter van der Veer (editor)
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 1995
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781136661976
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Sociology, History, Christian