Part 1: Converting States: Nationalism, Ritual, and Religious
Identity
The Crisis of “Conversion” and Search for National Doctrine in
Early Meiji Japan - Trent Maxey
Civic Faith and Hybrid Ritual in Nationalist China - Rebecca
Nedostup
The Atmosphere of Conversion in Interwar Japan - Alan Tansman
Adamant And Treacherous: Serbian Historians On Religious
Conversions - Bojan Aleksov
Part 2: Converting Institutions: Education, Media, and Mass
Movements
Gender, Conversion, and Social Transformation: The American
Discourse of Domesticity and the Origins of the Bulgarian Women’s
Movement, 1857-1876 - Barbara Reeves-Ellington
Secular Conversion as a Turkish Revolutionary Project in the 1930s
- Ertan Aydin
Some Consideration on the Building of an Ottoman Public Identity in
the Nineteenth Century -Şerif Mardin
Science Without Conscience: Unno Jūza and Tenkō of Convenience -
Sari Kawana
Charismatic Entrepreneurship and Conversion: Oomoto
Proselytization, 1916-1935 - Nancy Stalker
Part 3: Converting Selves: Translating Modern Identity
Translation and Conversion Beyond Western Modernity: Tolstoian
Religion in Meiji Japan - Sho Konishi
Civilization and Its Discussants: Medeniyet and the Turkish
Conversion to Modernism - Kevin Reinhart
The Double Bind of Race and Religion: The Conversion of the Dönme
to Turkish Secular Nationalism - Marc Baer
The Body as the Locus of Religious Identity: Examples from Western
India - James W. Laine
The Poetics of Conversion and the Problem of Translation in Endō
Shūsaku's Silence - Dennis Washburn
Part 4: Converting Others: Hybridity and the Problem of
Sincerity
“Mass Movements” in South India, 1877-1936 - Eliza F. Kent
From Morals to Melancholy: How a Japanese Critic Rejected Bakin and
Learned to Love Shakespeare - Patrick Caddeau
Hidden Believers, Hidden Apostates: The Phenomenon of Crypto-Jews
and Crypto-Christians in the Middle East - Maurus Reinkowski
True Believers? Agency and Sincerity in Representations of “Mass
Movement" Converts in 1930s India - Laura Dudley Jenkins
From Ideological Literature to a Literary Ideology: “Conversion” in
Wartime Japan - James Dorsey
Dennis C. Washburn, Ph.D (1991) in Japanese Literature, Yale
University, is Professor of Japanese and Comparative Literature at
Dartmouth College. He is the author of several studies and
translations including Translating Mount Fuji: Modern Japanese
Fiction and the Ethics of Identity (Columbia, 2006).
A. Kevin Reinhart, Ph.D (1986) from the Committee on the Study of
Religion, Harvard University, is Associate Professor in the
Religion Department, Dartmouth College. He has published on Islamic
law, theology and ethics, and on late Ottoman-period Islam.
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