Author: A. T. Philip
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Category : Kerala (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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Author: Zac Varghese Kanisseril
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ISBN: 9788190085441
Category : Kerala (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 245
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Author: Dr. Alex Thomas
Publisher: ISPCK
ISBN: 9788172149697
Category : Christianity and culture
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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With reference to Mar Thoma Syrian Church's mission to North Kanara, India.
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Languages : en
Pages : 12
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Author: Ninan Koshy
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Category : Caste
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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Author: George K. Alex
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Category : Church history
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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"Religious beliefs play a major role in forming and sustaining the power and culture of any society. When religious beliefs are reconfigured, society gets transformed by gaining a new worldview. The catalyst for the renaissance in Kerala was undoubtedly the interaction with western philosophy and consciousness. The book covers the entire history of the transformation of Kerala Christians from a caste society to a faith community and from a faith community to a politically oriented civil society. The contributions of church leaders, social reformers and civil society activists are critically scrutinized herewith."--Amazon.com
Author: John Thomas
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 1647608171
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 445
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The epic of the apostle St. Thomas is reported in this treatise. The traditional tale tells an unacceptable story without credibility and relevance to the reality of how Jesus and His apostles preached—to whom, when, where and why hearers left their earlier faith to become the first believers in the faith, which has since come to be known as Christianity in spite of all the resistance, persecutions and tortures these believers had to endure, suffer and die cruel deaths for. Then there are the enduring unassailable facts—a people on the west Malabar coast of Peninsular India, the Syrian Christians, claiming from the very beginning of their existence of having been Christianised only by the testimony and witness of the apostle to their ancestors, and a tomb on the east Coromandel Coast of peninsular India at Mylapore, forlorn and without any local devotees (until the coming of the Portuguese), that has always been known and claimed to be the only burial place of the apostle. Then it has to be critically evaluated, why among the apostles, St. Thomas alone travelled about 7000 km east and south of Palestine (in a direction away from the travels and mission of all other apostles), traversing desert and ocean to preach only to two similar communities at two seaports at Muziris and Mylapore on either side of peninsular India. This is the enigmatic and perplexing matter thoroughly researched, analysed, evaluated and reported in this book and treatise. The book finally arrives at the factors that led to the success of the apostle’s mission at the seaport of Muziris.
Author: Madathilparampil M. Thomas
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Category : Kerala (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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On the Mar Thomite religious and cultural reforms of Abraham Malpan, 19th century Christian priest of Kerala.
Author: Prema A. Kurien
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479804754
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 295
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This book exposes the profound impact American evangelicalism is having on the religious lives of contemporary Christian immigrants, and the pressures immigrant churches face to incorporate evangelical worship styles, often at the expense of maintaining their ethnic character and support systems. Most interestingly, it shows that the integration patterns of post-1965 Christian immigrants and their descendants have essentially reversed earlier models. While immigrants from Europe and their children were expected to shed their ethnic identities to become Americans, in the sphere of religion, they could maintain their ethnic traditions within American denominations. This book shows that members of the contemporary second generation are incorporating into U.S. society by maintaining their ethnic identities in secular contexts but are adopting a de-ethnicized religious identity and practice. In particular, many are gravitating toward evangelical megachurches. Drawing on multi-site research in the U.S. and India, this book also provides a global perspective on religion, demonstrating the variety of ways in which transnational processes affect religious organizations and their members, and how forces of globalization, from the period of colonialism to contemporary out-migration, have brought tremendous changes among Christian communities in the Global South. Book jacket.
Author: Peter Berger
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134061110
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 358
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The Modern Anthropology of India is an accessible textbook providing a critical overview of the ethnographic work done in India since 1947. It assesses the history of research in each region and serves as a practical and comprehensive guide to the main themes dealt with by ethnographers. It highlights key analytical concepts and paradigms that came to be of relevance in particular regions in the recent history of research in India, and which possibly gained a pan-Indian or even trans-Indian significance. Structured according to the states of the Indian union, contributors raise several key questions, including: What themes were ethnographers interested in? What are the significant ethnographic contributions? How are peoples, communities and cultural areas represented? How has the ethnographic research in the area developed? Filling a significant gap in the literature, the book is an invaluable resource to students and researchers in the field of Indian anthropology/ethnography, regional anthropology and postcolonial studies. It is also of interest to students of South Asian studies in general as it provides an extensive and critical overview of regionally based ethnographic activity undertaken in India.