Sunday, January 11, 2004

8:30–10:30 a.m.

141. Religion Confronts Modernity: Comparing Resistance to State-Imposed Ideologies
Omni Shoreham, Suite 473

Chair: Mridu Rai, Yale University
Papers:

Myth, Magic, and Modernity: Oomoto Confronts the Imperial Japanese State
Nancy Stalker, University of Texas at Austin

Bulgarian Women, American Missionaries, and Ottoman Secular Reform in the 1860s
Barbara Reeves-Ellington, Siena College

“ I will not die a Hindu”: Mass Conversion as Resistance to State-Imposed Identities in India, 1935–56
Laura Dudley Jenkins, University of Cincinnati

The Dãnme of Salonika and the Conversion to Turkish Secular Nationalism, 1923–44
Marc David Baer, Tulane University
Comment: Eliza Kent, Colgate University