Christians and Missionaries in India: Cross-cultural Communication Since 1500Robert Eric Frykenberg, Alaine M. Low 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. |
Contents
Dealing with Contested Definitions and Controversial Perspectives | 1 |
An Historical Overview of Their Complex Origins | 33 |
3 First European Missionaries on Sanskrit Grammar | 62 |
4 Country Priests Catechists and Schoolmasters as Cultural Religious and Social Middlemen in the Context of the Tranquebar Mission | 70 |
European Science and German Missionary Education in the Lives of Two Indian Intellectuals in the Early Nineteenth Century | 93 |
Integration Adaptation or Confrontation? | 127 |
The Impact of the Protestant Missionary Movement on Hindu SelfUnderstanding | 155 |
Hindu Responses to Science and Christianity on the Margins of Empire 18001850 | 183 |
The Orunodoi Periodical of the American Baptist Mission | 256 |
11 The Santals Though Unable to Plan for Tomorrow Should Be Converted by Santals | 274 |
Illustrated by Materials on the Santals after 1855 | 295 |
Perspectives on Caste Culture and Conversion | 315 |
The Presence of Missions in Rural South India ca 19001950 | 336 |
The Remarkable Life of Paulaseer Lawrie alias Shree Lahari Krishna 19211989 A Contribution to the Understanding of New Religious Movements | 357 |
16 Praising Baby Jesus in Iyecupiran Pillaitamil | 376 |
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Christianity in LateNineteenthCentury Punjab from the Perspective of a Convert from Islam | 223 |
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