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UNISA996248120703316 |
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Viswanathan Gauri |
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Outside the Fold : Conversion, Modernity, and Belief / / Gauri Viswanathan |
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Princeton, N.J. : , : Princeton University Press, , 1998 |
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©1998 |
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1 online resource (xx, 332 p. ) : ill. ; |
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Konversion |
Religion |
Conversion |
Comparative studies. |
India |
England |
England Religion |
India Religion |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [297]-315) and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part One DISSENT AND THE NATION -- CHAPTER ONE Cross Currents -- CHAPTER TWO A Grammar of Dissent -- Part Two COLONIAL INTERVENTIONS -- CHAPTER THREE Rights of Passage: Converts' Testimonies -- CHAPTER FOUR Silencing Heresy -- CHAPTER FIVE Ethnographic Plots -- CHAPTER SIX Conversion, Theosophy, and Race Theory -- Part Three THE IMAGINED COMMUNITY -- CHAPTER SEVEN Conversion to Equality -- CHAPTER EIGHT Epilogue: The Right to Belief -- Appendix -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index |
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Outside the Fold is a radical reexamination of religious conversion. Gauri Viswanathan skillfully argues that conversion is an interpretive act that belongs in the realm of cultural criticism. To that end, this work examines key moments in colonial and postcolonial history to show how conversion questions the limitations of secular ideologies, |
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particularly the discourse of rights central to both the British empire and the British nation-state. Implicit in such questioning is an attempt to construct an alternative epistemological and ethical foundation of national community. Viswanathan grounds her study in an examination of two simultaneous and, she asserts, linked events: the legal emancipation of religious minorities in England and the acculturation of colonial subjects to British rule. The author views these two apparently disparate events as part of a common pattern of national consolidation that produced the English state. She seeks to explain why resistance, in both cases, frequently took the form of religious conversion, especially to "minority" or alternative religions. Confronting the general characterization of conversion as assimilative and annihilating of identity, Viswanathan demonstrates that a willful change of religion can be seen instead as an act of opposition. Outside the Fold concludes that, as a form of cultural crossing, conversion comes to represent a vital release into difference.Through the figure of the convert, Viswanathan addresses the vexing question of the role of belief and minority discourse in modern society. She establishes new points of contact between the convert as religious dissenter and as colonial subject. This convergence provides a transcultural perspective not otherwise visible in literary and historical texts. It allows for radically new readings of significant figures as diverse as John Henry Newman, Pandita Ramabai, Annie Besant, and B. R. Ambedkar, as well as close studies of court cases, census reports, and popular English fiction. These varying texts illuminate the means by which discourses of religious identity are produced, contained, or opposed by the languages of law, reason, and classificatory knowledge. Outside the Fold is a challenging, provocative contribution to the multidisciplinary field of cultural studies. |
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UNINA9910786165103321 |
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Practising information literacy : bringing theories of learning, practice and information literacy together / / edited by Annemaree Lloyd, Sanna Talja |
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Wagga Wagga, Australia : , : Centre for Information Studies, , 2010 |
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©2010 |
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[1st edition] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (399 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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LloydAnnemaree |
TaljaSanna |
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Information literacy - Research - Methodology |
Information science - Research - Methodology |
Library science - Research - Methodology |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; PRACTISING INFORMATION LITERACY: Bringing Theories of Learning, Practice and InformationLiteracy Together; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Integrating theories of learning, literacies and information practices; PART 1. THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES; CHAPTER 1 Windows on information literacy worlds: Generic, situated and transformative perspectives; Part 1. Literacy models and perspectives; Part 2. GeST windows; Part 3. GeST in practice; Using the GeST windows; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; CHAPTER 2 Lessons from the workplace: Understanding information literacy as practice |
Sociocultural and practice perspectivesInformation literacy and workplace knowledge; Emergency workers: fire fighters and ambulance officers; Establishing an agenda for information literacy research; Dimensions of information literacy practice; Constructing knowledge through practice: implications and challenges for practitioners and researchers; References; CHAPTER 3Information literacy as situated anddistributed activity; Information literacy as individual competence; Information literacy as sociocultural, tool-mediated activity; |
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Conclusions; References |
PART II. RACTISING INFORMATION LITERACY IN FORMAL LEARNING CONTEXTSCHAPTER 4 Problem-based learning andcollaborative information literacy inan educational digital video course; Problem-based learning and information literacy; Research questions and procedure; Research results; Conclusions; References; CHAPTER 5 The challenges of the first research paper: Observing students and the teacher in the secondary school classroom; Data and methods; Data gathering; Data analysis; Results; Discussion; References; CHAPTER 6 Digital literacies as school practices |
The perspective of media education researchDigital literacies; Methodology; Digital literacies as school practices: Laura's lesson; Discussion; Conclusion; References; CHAPTER 7 Year 12 students' use of information literacy skills: A constructivist grounded analysis; Information literacy research in schools; The transfer of learning; Methodology; Discussion; References; PART III. CHALLENGES IN INFORMATION LITERACY TEACHING; CHAPTER 8 Generic versus discipline-specific skills; Literature review; Methods; Analysis of questionnaires; Teaching information literacy |
Appendix: Information Literacy and the Practice of Research SurveyCHAPTER 9 Teacher trainees of the Internet Age: Changing conceptions of information literacy instruction?; Discussion; Conclusion; References; CHAPTER 10Dialogic literacy: A socioculturalliteracy learning approach; A sociocultural view of learning and literacy; Multimodal representations and situated learning; Dialogic literacy and traditional information literacy definitions; Dialogic literacy and the knowledge-creation paradigm in teaching, learning and schooling; Towards participatory learning and literacy culture |
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This book showcases new interdisciplinary academic research on the relationship between information literacy and learning. It combines findings with new understandings drawn from theoretical and empirical research conducted in primary and secondary schools, higher education, workplaces, and community contexts. The studies offer new insights into questions such as how transferable are the information practices and skills learned in one context to other contexts? What is the degree to which information competences are generic, to what degree are they domain and context specific? What are the kin |
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