The South Indian Pentecostal Movement in the Twentieth Century
The South Indian Pentecostal Movement in the Twentieth Century

Author: Michael Bergunder

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 2008-06-06

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 0802827349

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Making up approximately 20 percent of South India's Protestants, Pentecostals are an influential part of India's Christian culture, yet there is a distinct lack of scholarly focus on this increasingly large group. This careful, well-informed study by Michael Bergunder ably fills that gap. After a brief historical introduction to the worldwide growth of Pentecostalism, Bergunder delves into the history of the South Indian Pentecostal movement in the first section. The second section gives a systematic profile of the current movement in South India, based on a wide range of source materials and on formal interviews with nearly two hundred leading pastors and evangelists. Bergunder finishes his work with prospects for the future. Three appendixes and an extended bibliography offer ample ground for further research.

Civilizing Missions in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia
Civilizing Missions in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia

Author: Carey Anthony Watt

Publisher: Anthem Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 1843318644

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'Civilizing Missions in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia' offers a series of analyses that highlights the complexities of British and Indian civilizing missions in original ways and through various historiographical approaches. The book applies the concept of the civilizing mission to a number of issues in the colonial and postcolonial eras in South Asia: economic development, state-building, pacification, nationalism, cultural improvement, gender and generational relations, caste and untouchability, religion and missionaries, class relations, urbanization, NGOs, and civil society.