Converting women: gender and Protestant Christianity in colonial South India
At the height of British colonialism, conversion to Christianity was a path to upward mobility for Indian low-castes and untouchables, especially in the Tamil-speaking south of India. Kent examines these conversions, focusing especially on the experience of women converts and the ways in which conve...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Livre |
| Langue: | Anglais |
| Service de livraison Subito: | Commander maintenant. |
| Vérifier la disponibilité: | HBZ Gateway |
| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Oxford
Oxford University Press
2004
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| Dans: | Année: 2004 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Inde (Süd)
/ Femme
/ Christianisme
/ Conversion (Religion)
/ Histoire 1850-1947
B Tamil Nadu / Femme / Christianisme / Conversion (Religion) / Histoire 1850-1947 |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Protestant women
India, South
History
B Christian converts from Hinduism India, South History B Women, Tamil Religious life India, South History B Protestant converts India, South History |
| Accès en ligne: |
Volltext (Maison d'édition) |
| Édition parallèle: | Non-électronique
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| Résumé: | At the height of British colonialism, conversion to Christianity was a path to upward mobility for Indian low-castes and untouchables, especially in the Tamil-speaking south of India. Kent examines these conversions, focusing especially on the experience of women converts and the ways in which conversion transformed gender roles and expectations. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (ix, 315 p.) |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-983517-1 0-19-983517-9 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/0195165071.001.0001 |
