What I will show in the following is the ways in which, because James relies on narrative accounts of religious…
William James, phenomenology, and the embodiment of religious experience
conversion
Edith Stein and the experience of God
Edith Stein (1891–1942), later Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, was an original phenomenologist and an early student of Edmund…
Conversion and demographic anxieties
For readers interested in Islamic law and society, and especially for those who might not have thought that Malaysia is…
Crossing and conversion: Conclusion
Religious identity is a deeply political fact that takes different shapes in different political configurations. Conversions are therefore suspect and…
Inheritance and belief
Can we apply what we have learned about religious conversion to instances in which individuals do not embrace the convictions…
Conversion and race in colonial slavery
Why was black conversion so controversial? Or to put it differently, why did the baptism of enslaved and free black…
Duplicitous Dalits
Drawing on ethnographic and archival research between 2007 and 2010, I show how debates about conversion and Dalit materiality, tracing…
Conversion to Islam as religious and racial crossing
Due to the specific history of Islam in Western societies, the border that converts go over by becoming Muslim is…
Who needs conversion? Jewish conversion in a time of shattered boundaries
The idea that Jewish conversion might be unessential seems both provocative and counterintuitive. . . . Yet, in this short…
Conversion marriages: Rethinking categories of religion in colonial India’s courtrooms
Conversion marriages, which always involved litigants who had exchanged their religious self-designations, perpetually mixed up personal law codes and created…