India and the Indianness of Christianity: Essays on Understanding -- Historical, Theological, and Bibliographical -- in Honor of Robert Eric Frykenberg

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Robert Eric Frykenberg, Richard Fox Young
Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2009 - Religion - 283 pages
Indian participation in enabling, sustaining, and promoting Christian mission in India / Daniel Jeyaraj -- "Ancient churches" and modern missions in the nineteenth century / Wilbert R. Shenk -- Empire and misinformation : Christianity and colonial knowledge from a South Indian Hindu perspective (ca. 1804) / Richard Fox Young -- Creating Christian community in early-nineteenth-century Agra / Avril A. Powell -- An "ardour" of devotion : the spiritual legacy of Henry Martyn / Brian Stanley -- Revival, syncretism, and the anticolonial discourse of the Kherwar movement, 1871-1910 / Peter B. Andersen -- Caste, Catholicism, and history "from below," 1863-1917 / Chandra Mallampalli -- Hindu pundits and missionary "knowledge" of Hinduism / Geoffrey A. Oddie -- Proselytism in the history of Christianity in India / Michael Bergunder -- Anticipating independent India : the idea of the Lutheran Christian nation and Indian nationalism / Gunnel Cederlöf -- Indian Christians and Nehru's nation-state / Judith M. Brown -- Christian interpretation of "Hinduism" : between understanding and theological judgment / John B. Carman -- An overview and analysis of missionary collections in the United Kingdom relating to South Asia / Rosemary Seton -- North American sources for the study of Protestant Christian missions in India / Martha Lund Smalley

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About the author (2009)

Richard Fox Young is the Elmer K. And Ethel R. Timby Associate Professor of the History of Religions at Princeton Theological Seminary. He has written extensively on the encounter of Buddhists and Hindus with Christian in nineteenth-century South Asia.

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