Christians and Missionaries in India Cross-Cultural Communication Since 1500

Name: Christians and Missionaries in India Cross-Cultural Communication Since 1500
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ISBN: 9780802839565

ISBN-10: 0802839568

ISBN-13: 9780802839565

Edition: 2002

Authors: Robert Eric Frykenberg, Alaine M. Low

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List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 431
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Contributors



Introduction: Dealing with Contested Definitions and Controversial Perspectives




Christians in India: An Historical Overview of Their Complex Origins




First European Missionaries on Sanskrit Grammar




Country Priests, Catechists, and Schoolmasters as Cultural, Religious, and Social Middlemen in the Context of the Tranquebar Mission




Tanjore, Tranquebar, and Halle: European Science and German Missionary Education in the Lives of Two Indian Intellectuals in the Early Nineteenth Century




Christianity, Colonialism, and Hinduism in Kerala: Integration, Adaptation, or Confrontation?




Constructing "Hinduism": The Impact of the Protestant Missionary Movement on Hindu Self-Understanding




Receding from Antiquity: Hindu Responses to Science and Christianity on the Margins of Empire, 1800-1850




"Pillar of a New Faith": Christianity in Late-Nineteenth-Century Punjab from the Perspective of a Convert from Islam




Missionaries and Print Culture in Nineteenth-Century Assam: The Orunodoi Periodical of the American Baptist Mission




The Santals, Though Unable to Plan for Tomorrow, Should Be Converted by Santals




Christian Missionaries and Orientalist Discourse: Illustrated by Materials on the Santals after 1855




Glimpses of a Prominent Indian Christian Family of Tirunelveli and Madras, 1863-1906: Perspectives on Caste, Culture, and Conversion




Social Mobilization among People Competing at the Bottom Level of Society: The Presence of Missions in Rural South India, ca. 1900-1950




From Pentecostal Healing Evangelist to Kalki Avatar: The Remarkable Life of Paulaseer Lawrie, alias Shree Lahari Krishna (1921-1989)--A Contribution to the Understanding of New Religious Movements




Praising Baby Jesus in Iyecupiran Pillaitamil



Index