Missionary Christianity and Local Religion : American Evangelicalism in North India, 1836-1870 /
The first Christian communities were established among the population of Hindi- and Urdu-speaking North India during the middle of the nineteenth century. The evangelical North American Presbyterian and Methodist missionaries who arrived in what were considered the Hindu heartlands discovered a soci...
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Waco, Texas :
Baylor University Press,
[2017]
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Collection: | Studies in world Christianity (Waco, Tex.)
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Table des matières:
- 1. The religious context in north India : Hinduism, Islam, and Christianity
- 2. The religious context in north India : American evangelicalism
- 3. The missionaries : religious and social innovators
- 4. Indian workers and leaders : negotiating boundaries
- 5. Theology in a new context
- 6. Community in a new context.