Protestant Christianity In The Indian Diaspora

Author : Robbie B. H. Goh
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438469447

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Protestant Christianity in the Indian Diaspora by Robbie B. H. Goh Pdf

Captures how Indian Protestant Christians negotiate their religious and cultural identities within the Indian diaspora. This is the first comprehensive study of Protestant Christian religious identities in the Indian diaspora. Using qualitative interview methods, Robbie B. H. Goh captures the experiences of Indian Protestants in ten different countries and regions, describing how Indian communal Christian identities are negotiated and transformed in a variety of diasporic contexts ranging from Canada to Qatar. Goh argues that Christianity in India, developed within discrete and varied “ecologies,” translates in the diaspora into a model of small communal churches that struggle with issues of community maintenance, evangelical growth, and Pentecostal influences. He looks at the significance of Christianity’s “abject” position in India, the interplay and tension between evangelicalism and Pentecostalism, Pentecostalism’s insistence on religious endogamy (particularly among women), intrareligious differences along generational lines, the actions of Hindutva hard-line elements, and other factors, in the construction and transformation of diasporic religious identities and affective attachments to India. Robbie B. H. Goh is Professor of English Literature and Cultural Studies at the National University of Singapore. He is the author and editor of several books, including Christianity in Southeast Asia.

Author : Selva J. Raj
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317052302

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South Asian Christian Diaspora by Selva J. Raj Pdf

The South Asian Christian diaspora is largely invisible in the literature about religion and migration. This is the first comprehensive study of South Asian Christians living in Europe and North America, presenting the main features of these diasporas, their community histories and their religious practices. The South Asian Christian diaspora is pluralistic both in terms of religious adherence, cultural tradition and geographical areas of origin. This book gives justice to such pluralism and presents a multiplicity of cultures and traditions typical of the South Asian Christian diaspora. Issues such as the institutionalization of the religious traditions in new countries, identity, the paradox of belonging both to a minority immigrant group and a majority religion, the social functions of rituals, attitudes to language, generational transfer, and marriage and family life, are all discussed.

Author : Sam George
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506447063

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Diaspora Christianities by Sam George Pdf

South Asians make up one of the largest diasporas in the world and Christians form a relatively large share of it. Christians from the Indian subcontinent have successfully transplanted themselves all over the globe, and many from different faith backgrounds have embraced Christianity at overseas locations. This volume includes biblical reflections on diasporic life, charts the historical and geographical spread of South Asian Christianity, and closes with a call to missional living in diaspora. It analyzes how migrants revive Christianity in adopted host nations and ancestral homelands. This book portrays the fascinating saga of Christians of South Asian origin who have pitched their tents in the furthest corners of the globe and showcases triumphs and challenges of scattered communities. It presents the contemporary religious experiences from a plethora of discrete perspectives. It deals with issues such as community history, struggles of identity and belonging, linkage of religious and cultural traditions, preservation and adaptation of faith practices, ties between ancestral homeland and host nation, and diasporic moral dilemmas in diaspora. This book argues that human scattering amplifies diversity within Christianity and for the need for hetrogeneous unity amidst great diversities.

Author : Chad M. Bauman,Richard Fox Young
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,7 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 : D. Dennis Hudson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136834608

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Protestant Origins in India by D. Dennis Hudson Pdf

Protestant Christianity was established as a religion of India when in 1706 missionaries from the the German Evangelical Church sponsored by the King of Denmark landed at the Danish factory in Tamil-speaking Tranquebar. An indigenous congregation soon developed, with worship and catechising in Tamil and Portuguese. This book explores the manner in which people of various castes and of various religions responded to the Lutheran mission and congregation. It investigates the manner in which Tamils themselves understood the Evangelical religion as they spread it beyond Tranquebar. It then turns to the early career of Vedanayagam Sastri (1774-1864). He responded vigorously to efforts by 'new missionaries' to change the language, liturgy, and social custom that had guided Tamil Protestants for over a century. His actions and writings reveal an indigenous form of faith, and a 'theology of pluralism', that countered the Reformed and Enlightenment ideas about Christian life that the 'new missionaries' expressed and sought to enforce. Reflections on the intellectual impact of colonial Europe on those early Protestant Christians of India conclude the study.

Author : Robert Eric Frykenberg,Richard Fox Young
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802863928

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India and the Indianness of Christianity by Robert Eric Frykenberg,Richard Fox Young Pdf

Honoring historian Robert Eric Frykenberg--arguably the historian most responsible for promoting studies of intercultural and interreligious interactions in the South Asian context--the essays in this collection avoid the pitfall of Eurocentric, top-down historiographies and instead adopt and adapt Frykenberg's own Eurocentric, bottom-up approach, this accentuating indigenous agency in the emergence of Christianity an as Indian religion. The book features first-time case studies on Christianity in a variety of unusual Indian settings, including tribal societies, and offers original contributions to an understanding of how Indian Christianity was perceived in the post-Independence period by India's governing elite. Several essayists draw heavily on rare archival documentation in the United Kingdom, Germany, and India. The wealth of material and the perspectives gathered here constitute a remarkable volume--a credit to the historian who inspired it--from back cover.

Author : Ciprian Burlăcioiu
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110790160

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Migration and Diaspora Formation by Ciprian Burlăcioiu Pdf

The role of migration for Christianity as a world religion during the last two centuries has drawn considerable attention from scholars in different fields. The main issue this book seeks to address is the question whether and to what extent migration and diaspora formation should be considered as elements of a new historiography of global Christianity, including the reflection upon earlier epochs. By focusing on migration and diaspora, the emerging map of Christianity will include the dimension of movement and interaction between actors in different regions, providing a more comprehensive ‘map of agency’ of individuals and groups previously regarded as passive. Furthermore, local histories will become parts of a broader picture and historiography might correlate both local and transregional perspectives in a balanced manner. Behind this approach lies the desire to broaden the perspective of Ecclesiastical History – and religious history in general – in a more systematic manner by questioning the traditional criteria of selection. This might help us to recover previously lost actors and forgotten dynamics.

Author : Matthew Atmore Sherring
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : India
ISBN : UCAL:$B53607

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The History of Protestant Missions in India by Matthew Atmore Sherring Pdf

Author : Matthew Atmore Sherring
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : India
ISBN : UOM:39015013290344

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The History of Protestant Missions in India from Their Commencement in 1706 to 1881 by Matthew Atmore Sherring Pdf

Author : Philip Kuruvilla
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015043711319

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Identity and Integration of the Orthodox Church in India by Philip Kuruvilla Pdf

Author : Selva J. Raj,Corinne G. Dempsey
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2002-10-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 079145519X

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Popular Christianity in India by Selva J. Raj,Corinne G. Dempsey Pdf

Explores the lived experience of Christianity in India.

Author : John William Kaye
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783382307264

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Christianity in India by John William Kaye Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Author : Andrew Wingate
Publisher : SPCK
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780281066766

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The Meeting of Opposites by Andrew Wingate Pdf

Hinduism has many western forms, especially in the US, and a powerful presence in Leicester and London. In this book, The historical background as well as the story of migration are explored, so that the reader can understand why Hindus relate quite differently in Britain, in Scandinavia and in the US. It offers a guided tour of Hindu life and relations to Christians in many parts of the world.

Author : Robert Eric Frykenberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136128660

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Christians and Missionaries in India by Robert Eric Frykenberg Pdf

The assumption that Christianity in India is nothing more than a European, western, or colonial imposition is open to challenge. Those who now think and write about India are often not aware that Christianity is a non-western religion, that in India this has always been so, and that there are now more Christians in Africa and Asia than in the West. Recognizing that more understanding of the separate histories and cultures of the many Christian communities in India will be needed before a truly comprehensive history of Christianity in India can be written, this volume addresses particular aspects of cultural contact, with special reference to caste, conversion, and colonialism. Subjects addressed range from Sanskrit grammar to populist Pentecostalism, Urdu polemics and Tamil poetry.

Author : Julius Richter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : Christianity
ISBN : PSU:000056880816

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A History of Missions in India by Julius Richter Pdf