Description
Investigates processes of conversion in India from a comparative, multi-disciplinary and theoretical perspective, between, within and across religious traditions.
About the Author
Peter Berger (Ph.D. 2004) has been conducting research among indigenous highland communities of Odisha since 1996, working on topics such as cosmology, ritual, social structure and food. The present book is the result of an increasing interest in understanding cultural and religious change that has developed over the last ten years. His books include Feeding, Sharing and Devouring: Ritual and Society in Highland Odisha, India (2015), and he coedited Ultimate Ambiguities: Investigating Death and Liminality (2016), The Modern Anthropology of India (2013) and The Anthropology of Values (2010). Sarbeswar Sahoo (Ph.D. 2010) teaches sociology in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He was Charles Wallace Fellow at Queen's University Belfast and Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at Max Weber Kolleg, Universitat Erfurt, Germany, Germany. Sahoo received his Ph.D. from National University of Singapore. His books include Civil Society and Democratization in India: Institutions, Ideologies and Interests (2013) and Pentecostalism and Politics of Conversion in India (Cambridge, 2018).
Book Information
ISBN 9781108490504
Author Peter Berger
Format Hardback
Page Count 306
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 520g
Dimensions(mm) 236mm * 157mm * 23mm