Christians and Missionaries in India,9780802839565

Christians and Missionaries in India

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ISBN13: 9780802839565
ISBN10: 0802839568
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-03-01
Publisher(s): Eerdmans Pub Co
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Author Biography

Robert Eric Frykenberg is professor emeritus of history and South Asian studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Table of Contents

Contributors ix
Introduction: Dealing with Contested Definitions and Controversial Perspectives
1(32)
Robert Eric Frykenberg
Christians in India: An Historical Overview of Their Complex Origins
33(29)
Robert Eric Frykenberg
First European Missionaries on Sanskrit Grammar
62(8)
Iwona Milewska
Country Priests, Catechists, and Schoolmasters as Cultural, Religious, and Social Middlemen in the Context of the Tranquebar Mission
70(23)
Heike Liebau
Tanjore, Tranquebar, and Halle: European Science and German Missionary Education in the Lives of Two Indian Intellectuals in the Early Nineteenth Century
93(34)
Indira Viswanathan Peterson
Christianity, Colonialism, and Hinduism in Kerala: Integration, Adaptation, or Confrontation?
127(28)
Penelope Carson
Constructing ``Hinduism'': The Impact of the Protestant Missionary Movement on Hindu Self-Understanding
155(28)
Geoffrey A. Oddie
Receding from Antiquity: Hindu Responses to Science and Christianity on the Margins of Empire, 1800-1850
183(40)
Richard Fox Young
``Pillar of a New Faith'': Christianity in Late-Nineteenth-Century Punjab from the Perspective of a Convert from Islam
223(33)
Avril A. Powell
Missionaries and Print Culture in Nineteenth-Century Assam: The Orunodoi Periodical of the American Baptist Mission
256(18)
Jayeeta Sharma
The Santals, Though Unable to Plan for Tomorrow, Should Be Converted by Santals
274(21)
Marine Carrin
Harald Tambs-Lyche
Christian Missionaries and Orientalist Discourse: Illustrated by Materials on the Santals after 1855
295(20)
Peter B. Andersen
Susanne Foss
Glimpses of a Prominent Indian Christian Family of Tirunelveli and Madras, 1863-1906: Perspectives on Caste, Culture, and Conversion
315(21)
E. M. Jackson
Social Mobilization among People Competing at the Bottom Level of Society: The Presence of Missions in Rural South India, ca. 1900-1950
336(21)
Gunnel Cederlof
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 Movements
357(19)
Michael Bergunder
Praising Baby Jesus in Iyecupiran Pillaitamil
376(22)
Paula Richman
Index 398

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