Author: Emil P. BergPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity and other religions
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The Conversion of India, Or, Reconciliation Between Christianity and Hinduism
Author: Emil P. BergPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity and other religions
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The Missionary Review
Author: The Missionary Review of the World
Author: Missionary Review of the World
Author: Debating 'Conversion' in Hinduism and Christianity
Author: Ankur BaruaPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317538587
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
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.
Christianity and Conversion in India
Author: Indian Bibliographic Centre. Research WingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
From dust jacket: "Christian missionaries have been operating in India since the 1st century AD when Thomas the Apostle supposedly first set foot in Kerala. The quest of the Christian missionaries to convert the Indian masses to Christianity has been a long and tedious one. They have succeeded in some places and utterly failed in others. . . . This book tries to understand the reason for the relative failure of Christianity to take roots in India." The book also provides in detail exchanges between Christian missionaries and prominent Indians such as Gandhi.
Religious Conversion
Author: Sarah ClaerhoutPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000571130
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
This book re-examines the issue of religious conversion, which has been a site of conflict in India for several centuries. It discusses wide-ranging themes such as conversion, education, and reform in colonial India; the process and practices of conversion in Christian Europe; Gandhi, conversion, and the equality of religions; perspectives from Hindu nationalism, secularism, and religious minorities; religious freedom and the limits of propagating religion; and conversion in constitutional law, commissions, and courts, to chart new directions for research on religion, tradition, and conversion. Tracing developments from the 19th-century colonial era to contemporary times, the book analyses cultural background frameworks and the origins of religious conversion and its conceptualisation in Western Christianity. It further delves into how Indian culture and its traditions have shaped responses to conversion. Part of the Critical Humanities Across Cultures series, this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of critical humanities, religion, cultural studies, sociology of religion, comparative religion, philosophy, anthropology, theology, Indology, history, politics, postcolonial studies, critical theory, and South Asian studies.
Constructing Indian Christianities
Author: Chad M. BaumanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317560264
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This volume offers insights into the current ‘public-square’ debates on Indian Christianity. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork as well as rigorous analyses, it discusses the myriad histories of Christianity in India, its everyday practice and contestations and the process of its indigenisation. It addresses complex and pertinent themes such as Dalit Indian Christianity, diasporic nationalism and conversion. The work will interest scholars and researchers of religious studies, Dalit and subaltern studies, modern Indian history, and politics.
How to Become a Hindu
Author: Subramuniya (Master.)Publisher: Himalayan Academy Publications
ISBN: 0945497822
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
"A history-making manual,interreligious study and names list, with stories by Westerners who entered Hinduism and Hindus who deepened their faith"--Cove
Hinduism and Christianity
Author: Panikkar, RaimonPublisher: Orbis Books
ISBN: 160833788X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages :
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