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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (2): 455–456.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Matthew D. Walker The Great Civilized Conversation: Education for a World Community . By Wm. Theodorede Bary . New York : Columbia University Press , 2013 . 432 pp. $35.00 (cloth); $24.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2015  2015 In this work...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (4): 942–943.
Published: 01 November 1988
...Jack Blimes Talking Culture: Ethnography and Conversation Analysis . By Michael Moerman . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 1988 . xii, 211 pp. $14.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1988 1988 942 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...
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Published: 01 August 2023
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (4): 1096–1097.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Chloë Starr Asian and Oceanic Christianities in Conversation: Exploring Theological Identities at Home and in Diaspora . Edited by Heup Young Kim , Fumitaka Matsuoka , and Anri Morimoto . Amsterdam : Rodopi , 2011 . 235 pp. €48.00/$67.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (3): 633–653.
Published: 01 August 2013
... Saraswati (1824–83), the Arya Samaj was one of the earliest Hindu associations to deal openly and directly (not just rhetorically) with the challenge of Christian proselytizing. Fueled by concerns over what appeared, in the decennial censuses, to be declining Hindu numbers and a massive rise in conversions...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (4): 1100–1102.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Johan Elverskog The Mongols and the Islamic World: From Conquest to Conversion . By Peter Jackson . New Haven, Conn .: Yale University Press , 2017 . xx, 614 pp. ISBN: 9780300125337 (cloth, also available as e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (3): 661–687.
Published: 01 August 2014
...Charu Gupta Abstract Religious conversions by Dalits in colonial India have largely been examined as mass movements to Christianity, with an implicit focus on men. However, why did Dalit women convert? Were they just guided by their men, family, and community? This paper explores...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (1): 224–226.
Published: 01 February 2013
... of both literature and religion. Ceaselessly redrawing the meaningful “areas” of area studies in this manner points to a bright future. It is a fantastic, conversation-starting work that sets a new standard for what we can aspire to in Asian studies. This leads me to my final point about the limits...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1980) 39 (4): 787–789.
Published: 01 August 1980
...Richard M. Eaton Conversion to Islam . Edited by Nehemia Levtzion . New York : Holmes & Meier , 1979 . viii, 272 pp. Index. $29.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1980 1980 BOOK REVIEWS ASIA GENERAL 787 people working for or, if unemployed, who is likeiy...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1986) 45 (2): 269–292.
Published: 01 February 1986
...Jayashree B. Gokhale Abstract The conversion of the Mahars to Buddhism in October 1956 was an ambitious attempt to construct a new ideology fundamentally opposed to the traditional Hindu system of beliefs, which had been destructive for the individual psyches as well as for the collective existence...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2000) 59 (3): 790–791.
Published: 01 August 2000
...Robert Eric Frykenberg Outside the Fold: Conversion, Modernity, and Belief . By Gauri Viswanathan . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1998 . xx, 328 pp. $16.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 790 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES of Serib...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (2): 551–552.
Published: 01 May 1994
... is on his side. WILLIAM WEI University of Colorado, Boulder JAPAN Conversations with Shotetsu. Translated by R O B E R T H . B R O W E R , with introduction and notes by STEVEN D . C A R T E R . Ann Arbor: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, Number 7, 1992. x, 223 pp. $35.00. This translation...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (4): 1313–1314.
Published: 01 November 1994
... Press, 1991). It can be recommended both to the general reader and to the specialist, whether concerned with the Vietnam War or with the history of U.S. intelligence. EDWIN E. MOISE Clemson University Angles of Vision: Conversations on Philippine Literature. By R O G E R J . B R E S N A H A N . Quezon...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1978) 37 (3): 503–504.
Published: 01 May 1978
...Reinhold Löffler Faction and Conversion in a Plural Society: Religious Alignments in the Hindu Kush . By Robert Leroy Canfield . Ann Arbor : Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan (Anthropological Papers, No. 50), 1973 . x, 142 pp. Figures, Tables, Appendix, Bibliography. $3.00...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1948) 7 (4): 447–448.
Published: 01 August 1948
...John de Francis BOOK REVIEWS 447 the more surprising in a volume as magnificently printed and as richly provided with plates as the one under review. ROBERT HEINE-GELDERN The American Museum of Natural History Conversational Chinese. BY SSU-YU TENG. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1947...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1999) 58 (4): 1162–1163.
Published: 01 November 1999
...Tessa Bartholomeusz Religions in Conflict: Ideology, Cultural Contact and Conversion in Late Colonial India . By Anton Copley . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1997 . xvii, 279 pp. $32.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 1162 THE JOURNAL...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (1): 3–22.
Published: 01 February 2019
... than Hinduism or even start their own and yet remain excluded and exploited reveals the limits of a politics centered on conversion, as well as a different horizon for emancipation. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2018  2018 Ad Dharm agrarian history B. R. Ambedkar caste...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (3): 838–839.
Published: 01 August 2021
... Policy , 2011 ) . In a nutshell, Migrant Conversions is a valuable contribution to the growing list of works on South Americans in Northeast Asia and, as such, I would recommend this book especially for anthropologists and sociologists researching on wider migration studies. My...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1991) 50 (3): 574–603.
Published: 01 August 1991
...Daniel K. Gardner Abstract In studying the ideas of Sung Neo-Confucians, scholars have made much use of the so-called yü-lu texts, or “records of conversations.” Disciples, sitting in the presence of their master, would record his exchanges with them; less frequently they would jot them down later...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1992) 51 (4): 904–906.
Published: 01 November 1992
...Edward Friedman Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 Time for Telling Truth Is Running Out: Conversations with Zhang Shenfu . By Vera Schwarcz . New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press , 1992 . 256 pp. $30.00. 904 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Powers...