Seed 8: Beware of THIS Aasuric Culture
Seed 8: Beware of THIS Aasuric Culture

Author: Maanoj Rakhit

Publisher: Maanoj Rakhit मानोज रखित

Published: 2009-09

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 818974688X

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It is they who dumped on us their brand of cheap morality and turned us into Asurs like themselves. This is not acceptable. They can live in their own house and do whatever they feel like but they have certainly no right to sneak into our houses and teach our children their lowly ways. We have a right to know their true characters, and where they have brought us within a matter of one and half a century. We have the right to know what we were without their company, and how low we have sunk being in their company.

That Unknown Face of Christianity
That Unknown Face of Christianity

Author: Maanoj Rakhit

Publisher: Maanoj Rakhit मानोज रखित

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 8189746103

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Unbelievable as it may sound but then the Christian sources indicate that Christian Postwar World Policy for BhaaratVarsh has been to split the nation into pieces and create militant minorities:- (1) Create a militant minority comprising Christians; (2) Claim for separate States for Christians; (3) Work against national unity. Source: Report of the Christian Missionaries Enquiry Committee, 1956

Christians Meeting Hindus
Christians Meeting Hindus

Author: Bob Robinson

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2011-06-16

Total Pages: 411

ISBN-13: 1610975960

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With 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.

Arise Arjun
Arise Arjun

Author: Maanoj Rakhit

Publisher: Maanoj Rakhit मानोज रखित

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 8189746014

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First published 2003 March

Debating 'Conversion' in Hinduism and Christianity
Debating 'Conversion' in Hinduism and Christianity

Author: Ankur Barua

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-03-27

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 1317538587

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Hindu 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.

Believing Without Belonging?
Believing Without Belonging?

Author: Vinod John

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2020-11-19

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1532697244

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This study examines an indigenous phenomenon of the Hindu devotees of Jesus Christ and their response to the gospel through an empirical case study conducted in Varanasi, India. It analyzes their religious beliefs and social belonging and addresses the ensuing questions from a historical, theological, and missiological perspective. The data reveals that the respondents profess faith in Jesus Christ; however, most remain unbaptized and insist on their Hindu identity. Hence, a heuristic model for a contextualized baptism as Guru-diksha is proposed. The emergent church among Hindu devotees should be considered, from the perspective of world Christianity, as a disparate form of belonging while remaining within one's community of birth. The insistence on a visible church and a distinct community of Christ's followers is contested because the devotees should construct their contextual ecclesiology, since it is an indigenous discovery of the Christian faith. Thus, the "Christian" label for the adherents is dispensable while retaining their socio-ethnic Hindu identity. Christian mission should discontinue extraction and assimilation; instead, missional praxis should be within the given sociocultural structures, recognizing their idiosyncrasies as legitimate in God's eyes and in need of transformation, like any human culture.

Religious Conversion in India
Religious Conversion in India

Author: Manohar James

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2022-03-14

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 1725294540

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In this book, Dr. Manohar James explores how Hindu intolerance has contributed to anti-Christian propaganda over the centuries, how such intolerance has informed the conclusions of the Niyogi Committee Report, and how the Report’s ongoing publications, redactions and recessions have intensified anti-Christian rhetoric in India over the last six decades.