Christians, Cultural Interactions and India's Religious Traditions by Judith M. Brown
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Christians, Cultural Interactions and India's Religious Traditions
Christians, Cultural Interactions and India's Religious Traditions
Summary
These essays examine the many and diverse cultural interactions which have occurred between Indian and foreign missionary Christians with India's other religious traditions in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Christians, Cultural Interactions and India's Religious Traditions Summary
Christians, Cultural Interactions and India's Religious Traditions Reviews
'The essays in this collection are essential reading for anyone serious about knowing the place of Christianity in the history and development of India.' - International Bulletin of Missionary Research
'A well-edited, stimulating, scholarly volume that will provide rewarding reading for anyone seriously interested in Indian history and in interfaith and intercultural issues in India today.'
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Contributors 1. Introduction 2. Bethlehem Kuravanci of Vedanayaka Sastri of Tanjore: The Cultural Discourses of an Early-Nineteenth Century tamil Christian Poem 3. Some Hindu perspectives on Christian Missionaries in the Indic World of the Mid Nineteenth Century 4. Modernist Muslim Responses to Christian Critiques of Islamic Culture, Civilization, and History in Northern India 5. Dalits and Christianity in Colonial Punjab: Cultural Interactions 6. Revival from a Native Point of View: Proselytization of the Indian Home Mission and the Kherwar Movement among the Santals 7. Entering into the Christain Dharma: Contemporary 'Tribal' Conversions in India 8. Theology and Authority, Constitution and Improvisation: The Colonial Chirch in India 9. The Dornakal Church on the Cultural Frontier 10. The 'Pure Tamil Movement' and Bible translation: The Ecumenical Thiruviviliam of 1995 Index
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Christians, Cultural Interactions and India's Religious Traditions by Judith M. Brown
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
2002-08-22
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