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Variation (and change) in religious practice in the Kyrgyz Republic ranges from heterodox to orthodox; from venerating ancestors at sacred sites as part of traditional Islamic worship to reading namaz five times a day at mosque in partial fulfillment of an Islamic understanding …

This dissertation explores the ways in which British Protestant missionaries in British India and particularly Scottish missionaries in nineteenth-century Bombay conceptualized "religion" and the "religions" of India. Protestant missionary formulations of Indian religions contri…