Converting Cultures

Dennis C. Washburn, Ph.D (1991) in Japanese Literature, Yale University, is Professor of Japanese and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College. He is the author of several studies and translations including Translating Mount Fuji: Modern Japanese Fiction and the Ethics of Identity (Columbia, 2006).A. Kevin Reinhart, Ph.D (1986) from the Committee on the Study of Religion, Harvard University, is Associate Professor in the Religion Department, Dartmouth College. He has published on Islamic law, theology and ethics, and on late Ottoman-period Islam.

• Part 1: Converting States: Nationalism, Ritual, and Religious IdentityThe Crisis of “Conversion” and Search for National Doctrine in Early Meiji Japan - Trent MaxeyCivic Faith and Hybrid Ritual in Nationalist China - Rebecca NedostupThe Atmosphere of Conversion in Interwar Japan - Alan TansmanAdamant And Treacherous: Serbian Historians On Religious Conversions - Bojan AleksovPart 2: Converting Institutions: Education, Media, and Mass MovementsGender, Conversion, and Social Transformation: The American Discourse of Domesticity and the Origins of the Bulgarian Women’s Movement, 1857-1876 - Barbara Reeves-EllingtonSecular Conversion as a Turkish Revolutionary Project in the 1930s - Ertan AydinSome Consideration on the Building of an Ottoman Public Identity in the Nineteenth Century -Şerif MardinScience Without Conscience: Unno Jūza and Tenkō of Convenience - Sari KawanaCharismatic Entrepreneurship and Conversion: Oomoto Proselytization, 1916-1935 - Nancy StalkerPart 3: Converting Selves: Translating Modern IdentityTranslation and Conversion Beyond Western Modernity: Tolstoian Religion in Meiji Japan - Sho KonishiCivilization and Its Discussants: Medeniyet and the Turkish Conversion to Modernism - Kevin ReinhartThe Double Bind of Race and Religion: The Conversion of the Dönme to Turkish Secular Nationalism - Marc BaerThe Body as the Locus of Religious Identity: Examples from Western India - James W. LaineThe Poetics of Conversion and the Problem of Translation in Endō Shūsaku's Silence - Dennis WashburnPart 4: Converting Others: Hybridity and the Problem of Sincerity“Mass Movements” in South India, 1877-1936 - Eliza F. KentFrom Morals to Melancholy: How a Japanese Critic Rejected Bakin and Learned to Love Shakespeare - Patrick CaddeauHidden Believers, Hidden Apostates: The Phenomenon of Crypto-Jews and Crypto-Christians in the Middle East - Maurus ReinkowskiTrue Believers? Agency and Sincerity in Representations of “Mass Movement" Converts in 1930s India - Laura Dudley JenkinsFrom Ideological Literature to a Literary Ideology: “Conversion” in Wartime Japan - James Dorsey