Christians and Missionaries in India: Cross-cultural Communication Since 1500, with Special Reference to Caste, Conversion, and ColonialismRobert Eric Frykenberg, Alaine M. Low This interesting volume challenges the long-held assumption thatChristianity in India is nothing but a colonial or Western imposition. Leading experts here chronicle the histories and cultures ofIndia's many Christian communities and show that local Indianleaders were the real agents of religious change in the subcontinent. These chapters range widely over various facets of Indiansociety and its religious developments. Of crucial importance isthe fact that in exploring their subjects the contributors take painsto avoid the Eurocentric nature of most studies of India and represent Christianity from a genuinely Indocentric perspective. Theresult is an entirely new vista from which to view the history, features, and influence of Indian Christianity.Contributors: Peter B. Andersen |
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Contents
Introduction Dealing with Contested Definitions and Controversial Perspectives | 1 |
Christians in India An Historical Overview of Their Complex Origins | 33 |
First European Missionaries on Sanskrit Grammar | 62 |
Country Priests Catechists and Schoolmasters as Cultural Religious and Social Middlemen in the Context of the Tranquebar Mission | 70 |
Tanjore Tranquebar and Halle European Science and German Missionary Education in the Lives of Two Indian Intellectuals in the Early Nineteenth ... | 93 |
Christianity Colonialism and Hinduism in Kerala Integration Adaptation or Confrontation? | 127 |
Constructing Hinduism The Impact of the Protestant Missionary Movement on Hindu SelfUnderstanding | 155 |
Receding from Antiquity Hindu Responses to Science and Christianity on the Margins of Empire 18001850 | 183 |
Missionaries and Print Culture in NineteenthCentury Assam The Orunodoi Periodical of the American Baptist Mission | 256 |
The Santals Though Unable to Plan for Tomorrow Should Be Converted by Santals | 274 |
Christian Missionaries and Orientalist Discourse Illustrated by Materials on the Santals after 1855 | 295 |
Glimpses of a Prominent Indian Christian Family of Tirunelveli and Madras 18631906 Perspectives on Caste Culture and Conversion | 315 |
Social Mobilization among People Competing at the Bottom Level of Society The Presence of Missions in Rural South India ca 19001950 | 336 |
From Pentecostal Healing Evangelist to Kalki Avatar The Remarkable Life of Paulaseer Lawrie alias Shree Lahari Krishna 19211989 A Contribution... | 357 |
Praising Baby Jesus in Iyecupiran Pillaittamil | 376 |
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Pillar of a New Faith Christianity in LateNineteenthCentury Punjab from the Perspective of a Convert from Islam | 223 |