India and the Indianness of Christianity: Essays on Understanding -- Historical, Theological, and Bibliographical -- in Honor of Robert Eric FrykenbergRobert Eric Frykenberg, Richard Fox Young 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. |
Contents
Indian Participation in Enabling Sustaining and Promoting | 26 |
Ancient Churches and Modern Missions in | 41 |
Christianity and Colonial | 59 |
Creating Christian Community | 82 |
Revival Syncretism and the Anticolonial Discourse | 127 |
Caste Catholicism and History from Below 18631917 | 144 |
Hindu Pundits and Missionary Knowledge of Hinduism | 158 |
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