CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- PART I: CONTINUITY IN CHANGE, CHANGE IN CONTINUITY -- Early Christian Conversion in Seventeenth-Century Cochinchina -- Translating Spirits: Protestants, Possessions, and the Grammars of Conversion in Shandong Province -- Preaching ( 傳 chuan), Worshipping ( 拜 bai), and Believing ( 信 xin): Recasting the Conversionary Process in South China -- Conversion to Mission Christianity among the Kachin of Upper Burma 1877-1972 -- Have the Mitdes Gone Silent? Conversion, Rhetoric, and the Continuing Importance of the Lower Deities in Northeast India -- PART II: CONFLICTED MEANINGS, MEANINGFUL CONFLICTS -- Is Conversion to Christianity Pantheon Theocide? Fragility and Durability in Early Diasporic Chinese Protestantism -- Conversion without "Commotion": Rev. Lal Behari Day's Candramukhīr Upākhyān (Story of Candramukhī) -- Loss and Gain: An 'Intellectualist' Conversion and Its Socio-Cognitive Calculus in the Hindu-Christian Life of Nehemiah Goreh -- The Enigma of Christian Conversion in Modern Japan: The Case of Two Buddhist Priests -- "Becoming Faithful": Conversion, Syncretism, and the Interreligious Hermeneutical Strategies of the "Faithful of Jesus" (Īsā īmāndārs) in Today's Bangladesh -- PART III: THE POLITICS OF CONVERSION AND THE CONVERSION OF POLITICS -- Does the Divine Physician Have an Unfair Advantage? Healing and the Politics of Conversion in Twentieth-Century India -- Conversion and Moral Ambiguity: An Chunggŭn, Nationalism and the Catholic Church in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Korea -- Connecting Disconnections: Troubling Meanings of Christian Conversion in Imperial North India -- The Illusion of Conversion: Śiva Meets Mary at Vēḷāṅkaṇṇi in Southern India.

Conversion to Christianity among the Thai and Sino-Thai of Modern Thailand: Growth, Experimentation, and Networking in the Contemporary Context -- Select Bibliography -- Index.