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Christians and Missionaries in India : Cross-Cultural Communication since 1500.
The assumption that Christianity in India is nothing more than a European, western, or colonial imposition is open to challenge. Those who now think and write about India are often not aware that Christianity is a non-western religion, that in India this has always been so, and that there are now mo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN MISSIONS; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Contributors; 1. Introduction: Dealing with Contested Definitions and Controversial Perspectives; 2. Christians in India: An Historical Overview of Their Complex Origins; 3. First European Missionaries on Sanskrit Grammar; 4. Country Priests, Catechists, and Schoolmasters as Cultural, Religious, and Social Middlemen in the Context of the Tranquebar Mission
- 5. Tanjore, Tranquebar, and Halle: European Science and German Missionary Education in the Lives of Two Indian Intellectuals in the Early Nineteenth Century6. Christianity, Colonialism, and Hinduism in Kerala: Integration, Adaptation, or Confrontation?; 7. Constructing ""Hinduism"": The Impact of the Protestant Missionary Movement on Hindu Self-Understanding; 8. Receding from Antiquity: Hindu Responses to Science and Christianity on the Margins of Empire, 1800-1850; 9. ""Pillar of a New Faith"": Christianity in Late-Nineteenth-Century Punjab from the Perspective of a Convert from Islam
- 10. Missionaries and Print Culture in Nineteenth-Century Assam: The Orunodoi Periodical of the American Baptist Mission11. The Santals, Though Unable to Plan for Tomorrow, Should Be Converted by Santals; 12. Christian Missionaries and Orientalist Discourse: Illustrated by Materials on the Santals after 1855; 13. Glimpses of a Prominent Indian Christian Family of Tirunelveli and Madras, 1863-1906: Perspectives on Caste, Culture, and Conversion; 14. Social Mobilization among People Competing at the Bottom Level of Society: The Presence of Missions in Rural South India, ca. 1900-1950
- 15. From Pentecostal Healing Evangelist to Kalki Avatar: The Remarkable Life of Paulaseer Lawrie, alias Shree Lahari Krishna (1921-1989)
- A Contribution to the Understanding of New Religious Movements16. Praising Baby Jesus in Iyecupiran Pillaitamil; Index