Christians, cultural interactions, and India's religious traditions
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Christians, cultural interactions, and India's religious traditions
(Studies in the history of Christian missions)
W.B. Eerdmans , RoutledgeCurzon, 2002
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Christianity has been one of India's religious traditions since its beginning, but the 19th and 20th centuries saw a new wave of Protestant missionary concern with India which coincided with British rule on the subcontinent, and the growth of modern forms of communications. Christians became involved in new forms of cultural interaction, which have had a major impact on Indian culture and society. 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, showing how Christianity has played a significant role in the development of Indian culture at many levels, among both the educated and the poor.
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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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Christianity has long been one of India's religious traditions, but the extent to which the faith has influenced Indian society and culture has never been well documented. This important book is the first to do so. Here a group of historians, missiologists, and religion scholars examines the fascinating but little known history of missionary Christianity in India, showing how it has played a significant role in the development of modern India at every level.
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