Chad M. Bauman Copyright (c) 2013 All rights reserved. http://works.bepress.com/chad_bauman Recent documents in Chad M. Bauman en-us Sat, 18 May 2013 01:31:04 PDT 3600 Hindu-Christian Conflict in India: Globalization, Conversion, and the Coterminal Castes and Tribes http://works.bepress.com/chad_bauman/46 http://works.bepress.com/chad_bauman/46 Thu, 16 May 2013 08:20:55 PDT While Hindu-Muslim violence in India has received a great deal of scholarly attention, Hindu-Christian violence has not. This article seeks to contribute to the analysis of Hindu-Christian violence, and to elucidate the curious alliance, in that violence, of largely upper-caste, anti-minority Hindu nationalists with lower-status groups, by analyzing both with reference to the varied processes of globalization. The article begins with a short review of the history of anti-Christian rhetoric in India, and then discusses and critiques a number of inadequately unicausal explanations of communal violence before arguing, with reference to the work of Mark Taylor, that only theories linking local and even individual social behaviors to larger, global processes like globalization can adequately honor the truly “webby” nature of the social world.

]]> Chad M. Bauman Sathya Sai Baba's Semiotic Flexibility: At Home Abroad in Midwestern America http://works.bepress.com/chad_bauman/45 http://works.bepress.com/chad_bauman/45 Wed, 17 Apr 2013 07:48:14 PDT No abstract available

]]> Chad M. Bauman Christianity and Hinduism: An Annotated Bibliography http://works.bepress.com/chad_bauman/44 http://works.bepress.com/chad_bauman/44 Tue, 16 Apr 2013 14:11:04 PDT No abstract available

]]> Chad M. Bauman et al. Minorities and the Politics of Conversion: With Special Attention to Indian Christianity http://works.bepress.com/chad_bauman/43 http://works.bepress.com/chad_bauman/43 Tue, 16 Apr 2013 14:03:43 PDT No abstract available

]]> Chad M. Bauman et al. Review of "Religious Division and Social Conflict" http://works.bepress.com/chad_bauman/42 http://works.bepress.com/chad_bauman/42 Wed, 13 Feb 2013 13:10:39 PST A review of Peggy Froerer, Religious Division and Social Conflict: The Emergence of Hindu Nationalism in Rural India. New Delhi: Social Science Press, 2007.

]]> Chad M. Bauman Review of "Missionaries and their Medicine" http://works.bepress.com/chad_bauman/41 http://works.bepress.com/chad_bauman/41 Wed, 13 Feb 2013 06:30:48 PST A review of Missionaries And Their Medicine: A Christian Modernity for Tribal India, by David Hardiman, Manchester University Press, 2008.

Note: This final version of this review can be found here: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/658131

]]> Chad M. Bauman Book Review: "Bringing the Sacred Down to Earth: Adventures in Comparative Religion," Corinne G. Dempsey http://works.bepress.com/chad_bauman/40 http://works.bepress.com/chad_bauman/40 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 12:30:51 PST A book review for Corinne G. Dempsey's "Bringing the Sacred Down to Earth: Adventures in Comparative Religion" by Chad Bauman.

]]> Chad Bauman Political Competition, Relative Deprivation, and Perceived Threat: A Research Note on Anti-Chrstian Violence in India http://works.bepress.com/chad_bauman/39 http://works.bepress.com/chad_bauman/39 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 09:49:54 PST A preliminary subnational statistical analysis of violence against Christians in contemporary India, this article suggests that whereas the data provide very little support for simple, demographic explanations of this violence, they do more robustly support theories emphasizing the relative status of ethnic and religious minorities (vis-a`-vis majorities) and the perception, among Hindus, that Christians (and other minorities) represent a threat to their numerical, political and economic strength.

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]]> Chad M. Bauman et al. Conversion Careers, Conversions-For, and Conversion in the Study of Religion http://works.bepress.com/chad_bauman/38 http://works.bepress.com/chad_bauman/38 Mon, 11 Jun 2012 09:13:05 PDT I am indebted to Professor Locklin for the provocative nature of this paper, and I say this not only to be polite. Some months ago, I read and then integrated elements of an earlier draft of the paper into my own work on conversion and Hindu-Christian conflict. My response to Locklin’s paper is therefore an appreciative one, which I will organize around three primary themes.

]]> Chad M. Bauman Indian Christian Historiography from Below, from Above, and in Between. http://works.bepress.com/chad_bauman/37 http://works.bepress.com/chad_bauman/37 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 08:30:06 PST The article reviews the books "India and the Indianness of Christianity: Essays on Understanding--Historical, Theological, and Bibliographical--in Honor of Eric Frykenberg," edited by Richard Fox Young, part of the Studies in the History of Christian Missions series, and "A Social History of Christianity: North-west India Since 1800," by John C.B. Webster.

]]> Chad M. Bauman Review of "Bourgeois Hinduism, or The Faith of the Modern Vedantists: Rare Discourses from Early Colonial Bengal" http://works.bepress.com/chad_bauman/36 http://works.bepress.com/chad_bauman/36 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 08:05:34 PST The article reviews the book "Bourgeois Hinduism, or The Faith of the Modern Vedantists: Rare Discourses from Early Colonial Bengal," by Brian Hatcher.

]]> Chad M. Bauman Book Review: "Beyond Boundaries: Hindu-Christian Relationship and Basic Christian Communities" http://works.bepress.com/chad_bauman/35 http://works.bepress.com/chad_bauman/35 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 07:58:07 PST A review of Beyond Boundaries: Hindu-Christian Relationship and Basic Christian Communities by A. Maria David.

]]> Chad M. Bauman Book Review: "An Encounter of Peripheries: Santals, Missionaries, and their Changing Worlds, 1867-1900" http://works.bepress.com/chad_bauman/34 http://works.bepress.com/chad_bauman/34 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 07:58:05 PST A review of An Encounter of Peripheries: Santals, Missionaries, and their Changing Worlds, 1867-1900 by Marine Carrin.

]]> Chad Bauman Book Review: "McDonaldisation, Masala McGospel and Om Economics: Televangelism in Contemporary India" http://works.bepress.com/chad_bauman/33 http://works.bepress.com/chad_bauman/33 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 07:58:02 PST A review of McDonaldisation, Masala McGospel and Om Economics: Televangelism in Contemporary India by Jonathan D. James.

]]> Chad M. Bauman Winning Strategies from IR All-Stars http://works.bepress.com/chad_bauman/26 http://works.bepress.com/chad_bauman/26 Sat, 19 Mar 2011 05:14:47 PDT Your faculty and students have been producing scholarly work for many years. Is it locked away in print format, getting very little use? Are you thinking about creating an Institutional Repository (IR) at your college or university to digitize these valuable resources and make them more widely accessible? If so, Butler University and bepress invite you to learn from game-winning IR specialists. This event will feature successful strategies for content acquisition and growth, distributing scholarship globally, and using metrics to take stock of your progress. Dave Stout (bepress Sales Director) will kick off the event with a brief introduction to IRs at 9:25 a.m.

]]> Chad Bauman et al. Identity, Conversion, and Violence: Dalits, Adivasis, and the 2007-08 Riots in Orissa http://works.bepress.com/chad_bauman/25 http://works.bepress.com/chad_bauman/25 Fri, 21 Jan 2011 05:41:08 PST Note: Link is to the catalog entry in WorldCat's catalog. Please see your local librarian for assistance in borrowing this item via interlibrary loan.

]]> Chad M. Bauman Postcolonial Anxiety and Anti-Conversion Sentiment in the Report of the Christian Missionary Activities Enquiry Committee http://works.bepress.com/chad_bauman/24 http://works.bepress.com/chad_bauman/24 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:58:18 PST Conversion to Christianity is one of the most politically charged issues in contemporary India and has recently been very much in the news. For example, in 2006, on the fiftieth anniversary of B. R. Ambedkar’s conversion to Buddhism hundreds of dalits gathered to convert, some to Buddhism and others to Christianity, rejecting Hinduism, a religion they claim oppresses and demeans them. In attacks on Christians in Orissa at the end of 2007 (and associated reprisals), dozens of churches, homes, and businesses were destroyed, hundreds of people were injured, and thousands were displaced.

]]> Chad M. Bauman Redeeming Indian ‘Christian’ Womanhood?: Missionaries, Dalits, and Agency in Colonial India http://works.bepress.com/chad_bauman/23 http://works.bepress.com/chad_bauman/23 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:49:21 PST This study of dalit Christians in colonial North India suggests that women who converted to Christianity in the region often experienced a contraction of the range of their activities. Bauman analyzes this counterintuitive result of missionary work and then draws on the work of Saba Mahmood and others to interrogate the predilection of feminist historians for agents, rabble-rousers, and gender troublemakers. The article concludes not only that this predilection represents a mild form of egocentrism but also that it prevents historians from adequately analyzing the complexity of factors that motivate and influence human behavior.

]]> Chad M. Bauman The Specter of ‘Spirituality’—On the (In)Utility of an Analytical Category http://works.bepress.com/chad_bauman/22 http://works.bepress.com/chad_bauman/22 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:13:40 PST I would like to make it clear that nothing in this article should be taken as a comment, one way or another, on the question of whether "spirituality" deserves a place in higher education. I consider that issue a distinct one, though no doubt in some ways related to the one I am addressing here, particularly since many of those authors who write about spirituality do so in order to argue for greater institutional and classroom attention to the spiritual lives of college students.

]]> Chad M. Bauman Fuzzy But Not Warm: On the (Continuing) Descriptive and Analytical Inutility of ‘Spirituality' http://works.bepress.com/chad_bauman/21 http://works.bepress.com/chad_bauman/21 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 07:55:48 PST In her response, Nadine Pence helpfully turns the conversation towards actual practices in teaching and the array of practical decisions that have to be made in the classroom and on campuses when it comes to addressing "Big Questions" and students' aspirations and interior lives. Several dimensions of her argument are worth amplification.

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