Christians and Missionaries in India: Cross-Cultural Communication since 1500
by Frykenberg,Robert EricFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-03-20
Publisher(s): RoutledgeCurzon
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Summary
The assumption that Christianity in India is nothing more than a European, western, or colonial imposition is open to challenge. Those who now think and write about India are often not aware that Christianity is a non-western religion, that in India this has always been so, and that there are now more Christians in Africa and Asia than in the West. Recognizing that more understanding of the separate histories and cultures of the many Christian communities in India will be needed before a truly comprehensive history of Christianity in India can be written, this volume addresses particular aspects of cultural contact, with special reference to caste, conversion, and colonialism. Subjects addressed range from Sanskrit grammar to populist Pentecostalism, Urdu polemics and Tamil poetry.
Author Biography
Robert Eric Frykenberg is professor emeritus of history and South Asian studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Table of Contents
| Contributors | p. ix |
| Introduction: Dealing with Contested Definitions and Controversial Perspectives | p. 1 |
| Christians in India: An Historical Overview of Their Complex Origins | p. 33 |
| First European Missionaries on Sanskrit Grammar | p. 62 |
| Country Priests, Catechists, and Schoolmasters as Cultural, Religious, and Social Middlemen in the Context of the Tranquebar Mission | p. 70 |
| Tanjore, Tranquebar, and Halle: European Science and German Missionary Education in the Lives of Two Indian Intellectuals in the Early Nineteenth Century | p. 93 |
| Christianity, Colonialism, and Hinduism in Kerala: Integration, Adaptation, or Confrontation? | p. 127 |
| Constructing "Hinduism": The Impact of the Protestant Missionary Movement on Hindu Self-Understanding | p. 155 |
| Receding from Antiquity: Hindu Responses to Science and Christianity on the Margins of Empire, 1800-1850 | p. 183 |
| "Pillar of a New Faith": Christianity in Late-Nineteenth-Century Punjab from the Perspective of a Convert from Islam | p. 223 |
| Missionaries and Print Culture in Nineteenth-Century Assam: The Orunodoi Periodical of the American Baptist Mission | p. 256 |
| The Santals, Though Unable to Plan for Tomorrow, Should Be Converted by Santals | p. 274 |
| Christian Missionaries and Orientalist Discourse: Illustrated by Materials on the Santals after 1855 | p. 295 |
| Glimpses of a Prominent Indian Christian Family of Tirunelveli and Madras, 1863-1906: Perspectives on Caste, Culture, and Conversion | p. 315 |
| Social Mobilization among People Competing at the Bottom Level of Society: The Presence of Missions in Rural South India, ca. 1900-1950 | p. 336 |
| 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 | p. 357 |
| Praising Baby Jesus in Iyecupiran Pillaitamil | p. 376 |
| Index | p. 398 |
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