Missionaries and Education in Bengal, 1793-1837
Author: Michael Andrew Laird
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Published: 1972
Total Pages: 326
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Missionaries, Rebellion and Proto-Nationalism
Author: Geoffrey A. Oddie
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-03-05
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 1136809961
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Rev. James Long was one of the most remarkable Protestant missionaries working in India in the nineteenth century. Sent to Calcutta at the age of 22 in 1840, he devoted his life to representing what he passionately believed were the best interests of the forgotten poor and oppressed among the Bengali population. Long was a central figure in the indigo planting controversy of 1861 and suffered imprisonment as a result. His memory is revered even today in modern India, where his contribution to the development of Bengali vernacular education, literature, history, and sociology is highly regarded. Dr Oddie has produced the first full-length biography of Rev Long, examining his work and activities in the context of his own background, philosophy and motivation as well as the political and cultural climate of the day. This book will add significantly to our knowledge of social movements in nineteenth century India and the colonial responses to them.
Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions
Author: Gerald H. Anderson
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 884
ISBN-13: 9780802846808
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The book also features cross-references throughout, a bibliography accompanying each entry, an elaborate appendix listing biographies according to particular categories of interest, and a comprehensive index."--BOOK JACKET.
History of the Catholic Missions in Central Bengal, 1855-1886
Author: George Kottuppallil
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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 372
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA study of the earliest period of Catholic missionization in Central Bengal and Assam (Jessore, Krishnagar, and Murshidabad). Primarily a history of the missionary pioneers: the Milan-based missionary society PIME, the Capuchins, Jesuits, Foreign Missions of Paris, the Sisters of Loreto, the sisters of the Congregation of Charity of Lovere. Also attention to Anglicans, Baptists, and the London Missionary Society.
Christianity in India
Author: Robert Eric Frykenberg
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2008-06-27
Total Pages: 606
ISBN-13: 0191544191
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRobert Frykenberg's insightful study explores and enhances historical understandings of Christian communities, cultures, and institutions within the Indian world from their beginnings down to the present. As one out of several manifestations of a newly emerging World Christianity, in which Christians of a Post-Christian West are a minority, it has focused upon those trans-cultural interactions within Hindu and Muslim environments which have made Christians in this part of the world distinctive. It seeks to uncover various complexities in the proliferation of Christianity in its many forms and to examine processes by which Christian elements intermingled with indigenous cultures and which resulted in multiple identities, and also left imprints upon various cultures of India. Thomas Christians believe that the Apostle Thomas came to India in 52 A.D./C.E., and that he left seven congregations to carry on the Mission of bringing the Gospel to India. In our day the impulse of this Mission is more alive than ever. Catholics, in three hierarchies, have become most numerous; and various Evangelicals/Protestant communities constitute the third great tradition. With the rise of Pentecostalism, a fourth great wave of Christian expansion in India has occurred. Starting with movements that began a century ago, there are now ten to fifteen times more missionaries than ever before, virtually all of them Indian. Needless to say, Christianity in India is profoundly Indian and Frykenberg provides a fascinating guide to its unique history and practice.
Max Muller, a Lifelong Masquerade
Author: Brahm Datt Bharti
Publisher:
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 292
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Author: Abdhesh Prasad Sinha
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 336
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFolklore Studies in India: Critical Regional Responses
Author: Sahdev Luhar
Publisher: N. S. Patel (Autonomous) Arts College, Anand
Published: 2023-02-25
Total Pages: 470
ISBN-13: 8195500846
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFolklore Studies in India: Critical Regional Responses is an interesting compilation of twenty-eight critical articles on the beginning of folklore studies in the different parts of India. In the absence of a book that could map the history of Indian folklore studies single-handedly, this book can be deemed as the first-of-its-kind to feature the historical development of folklore studies in the different states of India. This book succinctly introduces the readers to the folk culture, folk arts, and folk genres of a particular region and to the different aspects of folkloristic researches carried out in that region.
The British Zion
Author: Michael A. Rutz
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Published: 2011
Total Pages: 212
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing upon extensive archival research and a wide range of secondary sources, The British Zion traces congregationalist missionaries' involvement in domestic and colonial politics in early nineteenth-century Britain. As Michael A. Rutz ably demonstrates, evangelical nonconformists actively campaigned from both the Empire's metropolitan centers and its periphery to extend religious liberty and civil equality in Britain, open colonial territories to evangelization, abolish slavery, and secure civil rights for indigenous peoples. Moving beyond the dichotomizing pictures of evangelical missionaries as either the advance forces of colonial domination or innocuous humanitarians and educators, Rutz carefully examines the humanitarian and theological impulses of the missionary movement while critically examining its political, social, and cultural impact within the larger development of the British Empire.
