Village Christians and Hindu Culture
Author: P. Y. Luke
Publisher: ISPCK
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9788184580891
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Christians in South Indian Villages, 1959-2009
Author: John B. Carman
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2014-12-03
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 1467442054
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA discerning study of a slice of modern Indian Christianity and Christian-Hindu encounter This book revisits South Indian Christian communities that were studied in 1959 and written about in Village Christians and Hindu Culture (1968). In 1959 the future of these village congregations was uncertain. Would they grow through conversions or slowly dissolve into the larger Hindu society around them? John Carman and Chilkuri Vasantha Rao’s carefully gathered research fifty years later reveals both the decline of many older congregations and the surprising emergence of new Pentecostal and Baptist churches that emphasize the healing power of Christ. Significantly, the new congregations largely cut across caste lines, including both high castes and outcastes (Dalits). Carman and Vasantha Rao pay particular attention to the social, political, and religious environment of these Indian village Christians, including their adaptation of indigenous Hindu practices into their Christian faith and observances.
Christians Meeting Hindus
Author: Bob Robinson
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2011-06-16
Total Pages: 411
ISBN-13: 1610975960
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith rare exceptions, serious intentional, reflective and sustained interfaith encounter is a novel and recent enterprise. This book looks in detail at one such encounter--the intentional recent Hindu-Christian dialog in India--and asks why and how the practice of dialog came to replace previous attitudes of confrontation and monologue (especially on the part of Christians). Part I sets the encounter in its global context. Part II offers a comprehensive and critical analysis of the actual encounter. Part III draws on aspects of the Christian tradition as it critically examines the ways in which the dialog has been justified in Christological categories. A final chapter discusses the future of the encounter. Unlike many other works in the area of interfaith studies, this work combines both descriptive detail of the actual encounter and critical theological analysis of the strengths and weakness of the dialog model.
Christian Identity and Dalit Religion in Hindu India, 1868-1947
Author: Chad M. Bauman
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2008-10-07
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 0802862764
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSeries: Studies in the History of Christian Missions (SHCM)When a form of Christianity from one corner of the world encounters the religion and culture of another, new and distinctive forms of the faith result. In this volume Chad Bauman considers one such cultural context -- colonial Chhattisgarh in north central India.In his study Bauman focuses on the interaction of three groups: Hindus from the low-caste Satnami community, Satnami converts to Christianity, and the American missionaries who worked with them. Informed by archival snooping and ethnographic fieldwork, the book reveals the emergence of a unique Satnami-Christian identity. As Bauman shows, preexisting structures of thought, belief, behavior, and more altered this emerging identity in significant ways, thereby creating a distinct regional Christianity.
Christians and Missionaries in India
Author: Robert Eric Frykenberg
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 0700716009
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere are now more Christians in Africa and Asia than in the West. This book addresses particular aspects of cultural contact, with special reference to caste, conversion, and colonialism.
Caste, Gender, and Christianity in Colonial India
Author: J. Taneti
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-12-18
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 1137382287
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeginning in the nineteenth century, native women preachers served and led nascent Protestant churches in much of Southern India, evolving their own mission theology and practices. This volume examines the impact of Telugu socio-political dynamics, such as caste, gender, and empire, on the theology and practices of the Telugu Biblewomen.
Forrester on Christian Ethics and Practical Theology
Author: Duncan B. Forrester
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-05-15
Total Pages: 585
ISBN-13: 1351936131
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBringing together articles and chapters from his considerable work in theological ethics, India, and the social order, Duncan Forrester incorporates new writing and introductions to each thematic section to guide readers through this invaluable resource. This book offers stimulating studies in three related areas - Indian Christianity with particular attention to the caste system, contemporary Christian theological ethics, and the distinctive and challenging theological approach that Duncan Forrester has developed in relation to public issues such as prisons and punishment, welfare provision, social justice, and poverty.
Christians and Public Life in Colonial South India, 1863-1937
Author: Chandra Mallampalli
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-07-31
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1134350252
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book tells the story of how Catholic and Protestant Indians have attempted to locate themselves within the evolving Indian nation. Ironically, British rule in India did not privilege Christians, but pushed them to the margins of a predominantly Hindu society. Drawing upon wide-ranging sources, the book first explains how the Indian judiciary's 'official knowledge' isolated Christians from Indian notions of family, caste and nation. It then describes how different varieties and classes of Christians adopted, resisted and reshaped both imperial and nationalist perceptions of their identity. Within a climate of rising communal tension in India, this study finds immediate relevance.
Quest for Identity
Author: Roger E. Hedlund
Publisher: ISPCK
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9788172145255
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Study Stresses That Christianlity In India Is Not Alien But Both In Culture And Style It Is Indigenous. The Study Is A Timely Reminder That Our Place An Earth Is More Sacred Than Author. 12 Chapters-Conclusion, Bibliography, Appendix And Indexes.
Debating 'Conversion' in Hinduism and Christianity
Author: Ankur Barua
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-03-27
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 1317538587
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHindu and Christian debates over the meanings, motivations, and modalities of ‘conversion’ provide the central connecting theme running through this book. It focuses on the reasons offered by both sides to defend or oppose the possibility of these cross-border movements, and shows how these reasons form part of a wider constellation of ideas, concepts, and practices of the Christian and the Hindu worlds. The book draws upon several historical case-studies of Christian missionaries and of Hindus who encountered these missionaries. By analysing some of the complex negotiations, intersections, and conflicts between Hindus and Christians over the question of ‘conversion’, it demonstrates that these encounters revolve around three main contested themes. Firstly, who can properly ‘speak for the convert’? Secondly, how is ‘tolerating’ the religious other connected to an appraisal of the other’s viewpoints which may be held to be incorrect, inadequate, or incomplete? Finally, what is, in fact, the ‘true Religion’? The book demonstrates that it is necessary to wrestle with these questions for an adequate understanding of the Hindu and Christian debates over ‘conversion.’ Questioning what ‘conversion’ precisely is, and why it has been such a volatile issue on India’s political-legal landscape, the book will be a useful contribution to studies of Hinduism, Christianity and Asian Religion and Philosophy.
