Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2008

Publication Title

Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion

First Page

5

Last Page

27

Additional Publication URL

http://www.jstor.org/stable/20487924

Abstract

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.

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This is a pre-print version of this article. The version of record is available at Feminist Studies in Religion.

NOTE: this version of the article is pending revision and may not reflect the changes made in the final, peer-reviewed version.

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