religious conversion
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Pakistani women, Chinese men, the continuing story….
Following a New York Times report, the author notes that Pakistani Muslim women are being taken to China by rural Chinese men who overstate their wealth and perform nominal conversions,…
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Browncast Ep 40: Wael Taji on the Topology of Privilege
On Browncast Episode 40, the host talks to Wael Taji, a graduate student at Peking University in China, about privilege and race relations in modern China, its changing view of…
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Pakistani Christian teen ‘raped, forcibly converted to Islam’
An extract from a ucanews.com report in which a 15-year-old Christian girl in Karachi says she was raped, forcibly converted to Islam and married off, with a note that about…
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Are Sikhs Exceptional?
Prompted by a Twitter discussion, the author relays a Mumbai doctor friend’s view that Sikhs are the only group about whom two positive generalisations can be made, that they do…
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The Kalash of Iran
Prompted by a family story of Zoroastrians becoming Baha’is, the author argues that the Baha’i Faith has reduced Iran’s Zoroastrian and Jewish minorities, while its converts keep Persian identity, and…
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The end of the Kalash is nigh
The author argues that the end of the Kalash is near, since educated young women are reportedly converting to Islam and their high fertility can no longer offset conversions, and…
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What is in a name?
Starting from the origins of Martin Luther’s name, the author questions why Indian converts to Christianity often take ‘Christian names’ to avoid pagan references, noting that European converts kept names…
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BrownCast Podcast episode 22: Ajay Verghese on pre-colonial India, Hindus, Muslims, etc
The hosts talk to Ajay Verghese, an assistant professor of political science at UC Riverside who has written on ethnic and religious conflict in pre-colonial, colonial and independent India. They…
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Religious change, genocide, and culture in the Indian subcontinent and Eurasia
Razib Khan argues that ‘genocide’ carries modern, mass-politics connotations that do not map neatly onto premodern ethnic and religious turnover, where death was often a side-effect, and says readers should…
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Hindu Wife killed by ex for marrying Muslim man
A short comment on the crossbow killing of a mother of five, a Hindu woman who converted to Islam to marry, with the author noting the ‘Muslim’ angle would have…
