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Changing Gods: Rethinking Conversion in India 13 Jan 2008, 0213 hrs IST Changing Gods: Rethinking Conversion in India Rudolf C Heredia Price: Rs 350.00 ISBN: 0143101900 It can be difficult for people in Western, individualist and secularised cultures to understand some of the elements of religious fervour, even extremism, that have become press headlines in recent times. One of the things that makes Heredia's book important is his experiential insight into the deep connections between religion, identity, daily life, government and street politics, as well as multiple levels of relationships in eastern and sub-continental cultures. In a well argued and documented work, Heredia has been able to capture the paradox between Nehru¡¯s understanding that he needed to establish ' a secular state in a religious society' and Gandhi¡¯s challenge to Christian converts that they had in essence changed their nationality in adopting Christianity, which, in his time was still one of the pillars of colonial Western culture. Gandhi was opposed to Christian missionaries for this very reason. They wanted to change, not just the faith tradition, but the whole tradition. Heredia's book is well-structured with short summaries of key concepts prefacing each chapter. It is a comprehensive, balanced and well-researched study, but may well not please those aggressively opposing or promoting the right to proselytize. An Excerpt Soon after the Bandung Conference in 1955, Andre Malraux recalls asking Nehru: 'What is your greatest difficulty since Independence?' Nehru¡¯s spontaneous reply was: ¡°Creating a just State by just means, I think...¡± After a pause, he added: ¡°Perhaps too, creating a secular State in a religious country¡± (Malraux 1970). Since then, both difficulties have grown exponentially in tandem, undermining the legitimacy of both the state and religion in this society. The religious life of a person is inevitably enmeshed in the complex interrelationships of all other aspects of personal and group living. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Opinion/Sunday_Specials/Book_Mark/ Changing_Gods_Rethinking_Conversion_in_India/articleshow/2695708.cms Post message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe : [EMAIL PROTECTED] List owner : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
