American Missionaries And Hinduism

Author : Sunrit Mullick
Publisher : Northern Book Centre
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8172112815

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The First Hindu Mission to America by Sunrit Mullick Pdf

This book positions Brahmo Samaj leader Protap Chunder Mozoomdar as the originator of the Hindu mission movement to the United States of America in the late 19th century. It is known that Protap Mozoomdar, together with Swami Vivekananda, represented Hinduism at the Parliament of Religions at Chicago in 1893. But what has missed the focus of scholars is that Mozoomdar visited the United States ten years earlier in 1883, making him the pioneer of the Hindu mission movement to the United States. The book is the first detailed study of Protap Chunder Mozoomdar in America. It is written through primary research on American newspapers, periodicals, manuscripts, diaries and archival material available in American libraries, and material in possession of the author. On the whole, the book presents new information of interest to both the general reader and the scholarly community.

Author : Chad M. Bauman
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802862761

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Christian Identity and Dalit Religion in Hindu India, 1868-1947 by Chad M. Bauman Pdf

Series: Studies in the History of Christian Missions (SHCM)When a form of Christianity from one corner of the world encounters the religion and culture of another, new and distinctive forms of the faith result. In this volume Chad Bauman considers one such cultural context -- colonial Chhattisgarh in north central India.In his study Bauman focuses on the interaction of three groups: Hindus from the low-caste Satnami community, Satnami converts to Christianity, and the American missionaries who worked with them. Informed by archival snooping and ethnographic fieldwork, the book reveals the emergence of a unique Satnami-Christian identity. As Bauman shows, preexisting structures of thought, belief, behavior, and more altered this emerging identity in significant ways, thereby creating a distinct regional Christianity.

Author : Anand S. Hiwale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : Christianity
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CR59895101

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America's Present Opportunity in India by Anand S. Hiwale Pdf

Author : Geoffrey A Oddie
Publisher : SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015064760740

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Imagined Hinduism by Geoffrey A Oddie Pdf

This is an exploration of the emergence and refinement of the idea of Hinduism as it developed among British Protestant missionaries in the late 18th and 19th centuries. The text traces the growing use of the term 'Hinduism' as a category and label that has come to dominate the way scholars think about Indian religions.

Author : Arun W. Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Christianity
ISBN : 160258432X

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Missionary Christianity and Local Religion by Arun W. Jones Pdf

Cover -- Blurbs, Half Title Page, Series Page, Title Page, Copyright, Dedication, Map, Series Foreward -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Religious Context in North India: Hinduism, Islam, and Christianity -- Chapter 2. The Religious Context in North India: American Evangelicalism -- Chapter 3. The Missionaries: Religious and Social Innovators -- Chapter 4. Indian Workers and Leaders: Negotiating Boundaries -- Chapter 5. Theology in a New Context -- Chapter 6. Community in a New Context -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index of Places -- Index of Subjects and Names

Author : Michael J. Altman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190654924

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Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu by Michael J. Altman Pdf

Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu is a groundbreaking analysis of American representations of religion in India before the turn of the twentieth century. Before Americans wrote about "Hinduism," they wrote about "heathenism," "the religion of the Hindoos," and "Brahmanism." Americans used the heathen, Hindoo, and Hindu as an other against which they represented themselves. The questions of American identity, classification, representation and the definition of"religion" that animated descriptions of heathens, Hindoos, and Hindus in the past still animate American debates today.

Author : Sushil Madhava Pathak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Christianity and other religions
ISBN : UOM:39015058470520

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American Missionaries and Hinduism by Sushil Madhava Pathak Pdf

Author : Otis Robinson Bacheler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Christianity and other religions
ISBN : UIUC:30112052677421

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Hinduism and Christianity in Orissa by Otis Robinson Bacheler Pdf

Author : Arun W. Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1602584346

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Missionary Christianity and Local Religion by Arun W. Jones Pdf

The first Christian communities were established among the population of Hindi- and Urdu-speaking North India during the middle of the nineteenth century. The evangelical North American Presbyterian and Methodist missionaries who arrived in what were considered the Hindu heartlands discovered a social and religious landscape far more diverse than expected. With its Hindu majority and significant Muslim minority, the region also proved home to reform and renewal movements both within and beyond Hinduism. These movements had already carved out niches for religious difference, niches where Christianity took root. In Missionary Christianity and Local Religion Arun Jones documents the story of how preexisting indigenous bhakti movements and western missionary evangelicalism met to form the cornerstone for the foundational communities of North Indian Christianity. Moreover, while newly arrived missionaries may have reported their exploits as totally fresh encounters with the local population, they built their work on the existing fledgling gatherings of Christians such as European colonial officials, merchants, and soldiers, and their Indian and Eurasian family members. Jones demonstrates how foreign missionaries, Indian church leaders, and converts alike all had to negotiate the complex parameters of historic Indian religious and social institutions and cultures, as well as navigate the realities of the newly established British Empire. Missionary Christianity and Local Religion provides portrayals and analyses of the ideas, motivations, and activities of the diverse individuals who formed and nurtured a flourishing North Indian Christian movement that was both evangelical and rooted in local religious and social realities. This exploration of new Christian communities created by the confluences and divergences between American evangelical and Indian bhakti religious traditions reveals the birth and early growth of one of the many incarnations of Christianity.

Author : Alexander Duff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Hinduism
ISBN : NLS:B000074212

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India and India Missions: Including Sketches of the Gigantic System of Hinduism, Both in Theory and in Practice ... by Alexander Duff Pdf

Author : Michael J. Altman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000577891

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Hinduism in America by Michael J. Altman Pdf

Hinduism in America: An Introduction is a concise introduction to the long history of religion in the encounter between America and India. It is not a book that will tell you what Hinduism is; rather, it is an introduction to the variety of ways in which Hinduism has been represented, constructed, and practiced in the United States. Americans have been interested in the religions of India since the colonial period, and by the late nineteenth century the first Hindu teachers arrived in the United States. Throughout the twentieth century, interest in Hinduism and yoga grew, even as anti-Asian and anti-immigrant politics and policies in America intensified. When the Cold War led to changes in U.S. immigration policy in 1965, new immigrant communities arrived in the United States and built new Hindu institutions. Hinduism in America is an accessible introduction to these developments of Hinduism in the United States. Each chapter uses a key theoretical term in the study of religion to explore a variety of historical topics including: American missionary encounters with India; representations of Hindu religions in American literature; world religions and Hinduism; Vedanta; yoga; Hinduism in the American counterculture of the 1960s; and immigrant Hindu communities in the United States. Hinduism in America provides an overview of the multifaceted history of Hinduism in America. Ideal for students and scholars approaching the topic for the first time, the book includes sections in each chapter that provide useful theoretical terms for understanding that history.

Author : Arvind Sharma
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438432137

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Hinduism as a Missionary Religion by Arvind Sharma Pdf

Is Hinduism a missionary religion? Merely posing this question is a novel and provocative act. Popular and scholarly perception, both ancient and modern, puts Hinduism in the non-missionary category. In this intriguing book, Arvind Sharma re-opens the question. Examining the historical evidence from the major Hindu eras, the Vedic, classical, medieval, and modern periods, Sharma's investigation challenges the categories used in current scholarly discourse and finds them inadequate, emphasizing the need to distinguish between a missionary religion and a proselytizing one. A distinction rarely made, it is nevertheless an illuminating and fruitful one that resonates with insights from the comparative study of religion. Ultimately concluding that Hinduism is a missionary religion, but not a proselytizing one, Sharma's work provides us with new insights both on Hinduism and the consideration of religion itself.

Author : American Madura Mission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 932 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Congregational churches
ISBN : HARVARD:HNY6KU

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Annual Report of the American Madura Mission by American Madura Mission Pdf

Author : Michael J. Altman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190654948

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Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu by Michael J. Altman Pdf

Today, there are more than two million Hindus in America. But before the twentieth century, Hinduism was unknown in the United States. But while Americans did not write about "Hinduism," they speculated at length about "heathenism," "the religion of the Hindoos," and "Brahmanism." In Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu, Michael J. Altman argues that this is not a mere sematic distinction-a case of more politically correct terminology being accepted over time-but a way that Americans worked out their own identities. American representations of India said more about Americans than about Hindus. Cotton Mather, Hannah Adams, and Joseph Priestley engaged the larger European Enlightenment project of classifying and comparing religion in India. Evangelical missionaries used images of "Hindoo heathenism" to raise support at home. Unitarian Protestants found a kindred spirit in the writings of Bengali reformer Rammohun Roy. Popular magazines and common school books used the image of dark, heathen, despotic India to buttress Protestant, white, democratic American identity. Transcendentalists and Theosophists imagined the contemplative and esoteric religion of India as an alternative to materialist American Protestantism. Hindu delegates and American speakers at the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions engaged in a protracted debate about the definition of religion in industrializing America. Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu is a groundbreaking analysis of American representations of religion in India before the turn of the twentieth century. Altman reorients American religious history and the history of Asian religions in America, showing how Americans of all sorts imagined India for their own purposes. The questions that animated descriptions of heathens, Hindoos, and Hindus in the past, he argues, still animate American debates today.

Author : Louis George Mylne
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1358250995

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Missions to Hindus by Louis George Mylne Pdf

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