religious conversion
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Christian conversions in rural India
Razib Khan quotes a New York Times report on mob attacks and conversion-law arrests of Christians in India, reads it sceptically as a Cow Belt, Dalit-convert phenomenon, notes Hindus are…
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Browncast: An Ex-Muslim Bangladeshi convert to Buddhism speaks
In a BP podcast, the host talks to ‘Alex’, a Bangladeshi freethinker who went from Islam to Buddhism, about Bangladesh’s economic and social situation and the oppression of tribal people…
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Pew Survey on India (religion, etc.)
The author lists impressions of the Pew survey on religion in India: Hindi’s dominance in the Gangetic plain, doubts over reported mass conversion in the South, strong opposition to inter-caste…
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Open Thread – 03/06/2021 – Brown Pundits
Open thread for 6 March 2021, defending his claim that South Asian Muslims derive about 99 per cent of their ancestry from Hindus or non-Muslims, and noting a British study…
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Islam on the fringes
Razib Khan reads Richard Eaton’s India in the Persianate Age, noting Mughal accounts of Muslim peasant pockets in 16th-century eastern Bengal and the thesis, which he finds broadly credible but…
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Why do Pakistanis not want to be descended from Hindus?
Razib Khan argues genetic data show Punjabis and Sindhis have almost no West Asian ancestry, then discusses the ideological contest between Pakistanis and Hindu nationalists over Pakistanis’ Hindu origins, including…
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Hindu conversions to Islam in Pakistan
Razib Khan, citing a news report, argues that conversions of poor Hindus in rural Sindh, which is about 10% Hindu, are better explained by desperation and discrimination than by pure…
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People of Indian ancestry need to learn things outside of India or they will sound stupid
Razib Khan answers a commenter who compares Islamic invasions of India to Christian conquests in the Americas, arguing the Spanish aimed to extract rents rather than slaughter, that disease caused…
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A collective religion in an individualistic age
Razib Khan argues that Kurds embracing Zoroastrianism show why people leaving Islam may reasonably return to ancestral faiths, treats the objection that ancestors weren’t really Hindu as pedantic, and notes…
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South Asian Muslim ancestors were idolaters!
Razib Khan argues that rather than debate whether South Asian Muslims’ ancestors were ‘Hindus’, a term of shifting meaning, Muslims should simply accept they descend from idolaters, whether Buddhist, caste…
