Debating Conversion In Hinduism And Christianity

Author : Ankur Barua
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317538592

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Debating 'Conversion' in Hinduism and Christianity by Ankur Barua Pdf

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.

Author : Sebastian C. H. Kim
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Conversion
ISBN : 0195677129

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In Search of Identity by Sebastian C. H. Kim Pdf

'Very few books have...discussed [religious conversion]in a pan-Indian context...This book both promises and delivers this very perspective... a landmark in studies on conversion...' -- Seminar'The vital importance of this timely and extremely well-written book cannot be stressed enough...Kim offers us a sober, carefully researched and painstakingly documented book on the emergence of the conversion issue during the last one hundred and fifty years in pre- and post-independentIndia...[T]he book...offers us a fine basis to continue the exploration of conversion and its discontents.' -- The book Review'Kim seeks to reveal arguments for and against conversions, wherein lies the appeal of his book... By highlighting contesting philosophies, Kim focuses on crucial conversion issues.' -- Hindustan Times'...Kim's work...prove[s] to be a handy reference both for policy-makers and scholars.' -- The TelegraphThis important volume examines the major arg uments on conversion between Hindus and Christians, and also among Christian theologians in both pre- and post-Independence India. It reveals and interprets the arguments for and against conversion and seeks to understand them within a historical andcontemporary perspective.Engaging and immensely relevant, this book will interest policy-makers, journalists, academics, and lay readers, besides being indispensable to researchers and students of sociology, religion, theology, history, politics, and law.

Author : P. D. Mathew
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UVA:X004321331

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Freedom of Religion and a "debate" on Religious Conversion by P. D. Mathew Pdf

With reference to the Indian scene.

Author : Ankur Barua
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317538585

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Debating 'Conversion' in Hinduism and Christianity by Ankur Barua Pdf

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.

Author : Sarah Claerhout,Jakob De Roover
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000571134

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Religious Conversion by Sarah Claerhout,Jakob De Roover Pdf

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.

Author : Sumit Sarkar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Christian converts from Hinduism
ISBN : UOM:39015067735020

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Christian Conversions by Sumit Sarkar Pdf

Author : Laura Dudley Jenkins
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780812250923

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Religious Freedom and Mass Conversion in India by Laura Dudley Jenkins Pdf

Hinduism is the largest religion in India, encompassing roughly 80 percent of the population, while 14 percent of the population practices Islam and the remaining 6 percent adheres to other religions. The right to "freely profess, practice, and propagate religion" in India's constitution is one of the most comprehensive articulations of the right to religious freedom. Yet from the late colonial era to the present, mass conversions to minority religions have inflamed majority-minority relations in India and complicated the exercise of this right. In Religious Freedom and Mass Conversion in India, Laura Dudley Jenkins examines three mass conversion movements in India: among Christians in the 1930s, Dalit Buddhists in the 1950s, and Mizo Jews in the 2000s. Critics of these movements claimed mass converts were victims of overzealous proselytizers promising material benefits, but defenders insisted the converts were individuals choosing to convert for spiritual reasons. Jenkins traces the origins of these opposing arguments to the 1930s and 1940s, when emerging human rights frameworks and early social scientific studies of religion posited an ideal convert: an individual making a purely spiritual choice. However, she observes that India's mass conversions did not adhere to this model and therefore sparked scrutiny of mass converts' individual agency and spiritual sincerity. Jenkins demonstrates that the preoccupation with converts' agency and sincerity has resulted in significant challenges to religious freedom. One is the proliferation of legislation limiting induced conversions. Another is the restriction of affirmative action rights of low caste people who choose to practice Islam or Christianity. Last, incendiary rumors are intentionally spread of women being converted to Islam via seduction. Religious Freedom and Mass Conversion in India illuminates the ways in which these tactics immobilize potential converts, reinforce damaging assumptions about women, lower castes, and religious minorities, and continue to restrict religious freedom in India today.

Author : Chad M. Bauman,Richard Fox Young
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317560265

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Constructing Indian Christianities by Chad M. Bauman,Richard Fox Young Pdf

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.

Author : Aruthuckal Varughese John,Atola Longkumer,Nigel Ajay Kumar
Publisher : SAIACS Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789386549068

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Religious Freedom and Conversion in India by Aruthuckal Varughese John,Atola Longkumer,Nigel Ajay Kumar Pdf

Religious Freedom and Conversion in India is a collection of essays that addresses the political and practical concerns about "religious freedom" and "religious conversion" in the Indian context. These essays were first presented in the SAIACS Academic Consultation in September 2015 at SAIACS, Bengaluru. The 14 papers represented here have all been revised and edited in the view of the discussions during the Consultation. they approach the topic from various angles such as historical, legal, biblical, theological, missiological and cultural. The purpose of the SAIACS Academic Consultation, and the aim of this book, is to stimulate, encourage and provide direction for the academic, evangelical and missional thinking in South Asia.

Author : Rebecca Samuel Shah,Joel Carpenter
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506447926

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Christianity in India by Rebecca Samuel Shah,Joel Carpenter Pdf

Christianity has been present in India since at least the third century, but the faith remains a small minority. Even so, Christianity is growing rapidly in parts of the subcontinent, and has made an impact far beyond its numbers. Yet Indian Christianity remains highly controversial, and it has suffered growing discrimination and violence. This book shows how Christian converts and communities continue to make contributions to Indian society, even amid social pressure and violent persecution. In a time of controversy in India about the legitimacy of conversion and the value of religious diversity, Christianity in India addresses the complex issues of faith, identity, caste, and culture. It documents the outsized role of Christians in promoting human rights, providing education and healthcare, fighting injustice and exploitation, and stimulating economic uplift for the poor. Readers will come away surprised and sobered to learn how these active initiatives often invite persecution today. The essays draw on intimate and personal encounters with Christians in India, past and present, and address the challenges of religious freedom in contemporary India.

Author : Brojendra Nath Banerjee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Religion
ISBN : UVA:X030120445

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Religious Conversions in India by Brojendra Nath Banerjee Pdf

Author : Peter Berger,Sarbeswar Sahoo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781108490504

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Godroads by Peter Berger,Sarbeswar Sahoo Pdf

Investigates processes of conversion in India from a comparative, multi-disciplinary and theoretical perspective, between, within and across religious traditions.

Author : Sarbeswar Sahoo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108416122

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Pentecostalism and Religious Conflict in Contemporary India by Sarbeswar Sahoo Pdf

Conversion and the shifting discourse of violence -- Spreading like fire: the growth of Pentecostalism among tribals -- Taking refuge in Christ: four narratives on religious conversion -- Becoming believers: Adivasi women and the Pentecostal church -- Encountering the alien: Hindutva politics and anti-Christian violence -- Beyond the competing projects of conversion

Author : Samuel Jayakumar
Publisher : Ocms
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015049998027

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Dalit Consciousness and Christian Conversion by Samuel Jayakumar Pdf

Study conducted among the Nadars and Paraiyas community people at Tirunelveli District of Tamil Nadu, India.

Author : Reid B. Locklin
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438497426

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Hindu Mission, Christian Mission by Reid B. Locklin Pdf

For some four hundred years, Hindus and Christians have been engaged in a public controversy about conversion and missionary proselytization, especially in India and the Hindu diaspora. Hindu Mission, Christian Mission reframes this controversy by shifting attention from "conversion" to a wider, interreligious study of "mission" as a category of thought and practice. Comparative theologian Reid B. Locklin traces the emergence of the nondualist Hindu teaching of Advaita Vedānta as a missionary tradition, from the eighth century to the present day, and draws this tradition into dialogue with contemporary proposals in Christian missiology. As a descriptive study of the Chinmaya Mission, the Ramakrishna Mission, and other leading Advaita mission movements, Hindu Mission, Christian Mission contributes to a growing body of scholarship on transnational Hinduism. As a speculative work of Christian comparative theology, it develops key themes from this engagement for a new, interreligious theology of mission and conversion for the twenty-first century and beyond.