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This book thinks through modernity and its representations by exploring critical considerations of time and space. Drawing on anthropology, history and social theory, it investigates the oppositions and enchantments, the contradictions and contentions, and the identities and ambivalences spawned under modernity. Crucially, it understands these antinomies not as errors, but as constitutive elements of modern worlds. The book questions routine portrayals of homogeneous time and antinomian blueprints of cultural space, while acknowledging the production of time and space by social subjects. Instead of assuming a straightforward, singular trajectory for the phenomena, it views modernity as involving checkered, contingent and contended processes of meaning and power, which have found heterogeneous historical elaborations over the past five centuries. Bringing together past and present, theory and narrative, it sows the historical, ethnographic and methodological deep into its critical procedures, offering an innovative understanding of cultural identities and imaginatively exploring the relationship between history and anthropology.

Civilization, Modern. --- Space --- Time --- Social aspects. --- Metaphysics --- Modern civilization --- Modernity --- Civilization --- Renaissance --- History --- postcolonialism --- modernity --- theory --- colonialism --- modernism --- dalit artwork --- subaltern studies --- identity --- Humanities. --- Philosophy. --- Social and political philosophy. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General. --- Society & Social Sciences --- Sociology & anthropology --- Anthropology.

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Ésta es una historia sutil sobre cultura, dominación, resistencia y poder. Constituye un recorrido especial por los pasados de la India y la compleja relación de cuatro grandes temas: colonialismo, cristianismo, conversión y civilización. Saurabh Dube vierte en esta obra su profundo conocimiento sobre la historia de la India y las nuevas corrientes historiográficas para rastrear lo que pensaban, vivían y sentían aquellos indios que amalgamaron categorías coloniales con un cristianismo vernáculo y las legalidades populares. A pesar de ser actores subalternos rescribieron el guión de la misión civilizadora/ colonial y tradujeron el mensaje evangélico de maneras diversas y hasta contradictorias.

Syncretism (Religion) --- Conversion --- Protestant churches --- Christianity --- Social aspects. --- Missions --- History. --- Protestant sects --- Christian sects --- Protestantism --- Religious conversion --- Psychology, Religious --- Proselytizing --- Eclecticism (Religion) --- Religious syncretism --- Unionism (Religion) --- Religion --- Religions --- Asian history