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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| Формат: | Электронный ресурс |
| Язык: | Английский |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Опубликовано: |
Oxford
Oxford University Press
2004
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| В: | Год: 2004 |
| Нормированные ключевые слова (последовательности): | B
Индия (мотив) (Süd)
/ Женщина (мотив)
/ Христианство (мотив)
/ Конверсия (религия, мотив) (Религия)
/ История (мотив) 1850-1947
B Tamil Nadu / Женщина (мотив) / Христианство (мотив) / Конверсия (религия, мотив) (Религия) / История (мотив) 1850-1947 |
| Другие ключевые слова: | 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 |
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Volltext (Publisher) |
| Parallel Edition: | Не электронный вид
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| Итог: | 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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| Объем: | 1 online resource (ix, 315 p.) |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-983517-1 0-19-983517-9 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/0195165071.001.0001 |
