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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 21 February 2023
- ISBN 9780190608903
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages368 pages
- Size 235x156x25 mm
- Weight 649 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 24, b/w 298
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Short description:
The stories of South Asia's Christians are vital for understanding the emerging faces of World Christianity. Chandra Mallampalli shows how the faith has been shaped by Christians' interaction with Hindus and Muslims.
MoreLong description:
South Asia is home to more than a billion Hindus and half a billion Muslims. But the region is also home to substantial Christian communities, some dating almost to the earliest days of the faith. The stories of South Asia's Christians are vital for understanding the shifting contours of World Christianity, precisely because of their history of interaction with members of these other religious traditions. In this broad, accessible overview of South Asian Christianity, Chandra Mallampalli shows how the faith has been shaped by Christians' location between Hindus and Muslims.
Mallampalli begins with a discussion of South India's ancient Thomas Christian tradition, which interacted with West Asia's Persian Christians and thrived for centuries alongside their Hindu and Muslim neighbours. He then underscores efforts of Roman Catholic and Protestant missionaries to understand South Asian societies for purposes of conversion. The publication of books and tracts about other religions, interreligious debates, and aggressive preaching were central to these endeavours, but rarely succeeded at yielding converts. Instead, they played an important role in producing a climate of religious competition, which ultimately marginalized Christians in Hindu-, Muslim-, and Buddhist-majority countries of post-colonial South Asia. Ironically, the greatest response to Christianity came from poor and oppressed Dalit (formerly "untouchable") and tribal communities who were largely indifferent to missionary rhetoric. Their mass conversions, poetry, theology, and embrace of Pentecostalism are essential for understanding South Asian Christianity and its place within World Christianity today.
In South Asia's Christians, Mallampalli unfolds an unparalleled panorama: ancient Thomas Christians; waves of Catholic and Protestant missionaries from the West; ever-changing relationships with much larger Hindu and Muslim communities; adjustment and survival under diverse political regimes over the centuries and now too amid the new religious and secular dynamics emerging today. This is an introduction that will intrigue specialists as well.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Introduction
1 The Thomas Christians: Paradoxes of Being Pre-European
2 Jesuits and the Emperor Akbar, 1580-3
3 Cultural Accommodation and Difference in South Indian Catholicism
4 Early European Encounters with India's Hindus and Muslims
5 The Argumentative Protestant: Religious Exchanges Under British Rule
6 Upper Caste Converts to Protestantism
7 Mass Conversion Among Dalits and Tribals: Rupture, Continuity, or Uplift?
8 Nationalist Politics and the Minoritization of Christians
9 Dalits and Social Liberation
10 Pentecostalism, Conversion, and Violence in India
Conclusion
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index
