Religious conversion and the making of identity 10:00AM MCA Hall, RV University
RV University will co-host the Infosys Prize Lecture, in partnership with the Infosys Science Foundation, on Thursday, February 23, 2023. Dr. Ângela Barreto Xavier, who won the Infosys Prize in the Humanities in 2021, will deliver the lecture.
Abstract: Assuming the socially constructed nature of identity, historian, and Infosys Prize laureate, Dr. Ângela Barreto Xavier will discuss the place that conversion to Christianity under Portuguese imperial rule had in the making of Goa's political and cultural identity. Dr. Xavier will focus on local people's agency in conversion. Their attitudes included indifference, negotiation, consent, and passive and active resistance. She will consider some of the dimensions of religious conversion in the Goan case: the initial loss of personal and social identity, the anxiety of social destabilization, the construction of an in-between or new self, and the fluidity of religious belonging.
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