Christians, Cultural Interactions, and India's Religious Traditions

Jacket Description/Back: Christianity has long been one of India's religious traditions, but the extent to which the faith has influenced Indian society and culture has never been well documented. This important book is the first to do so. Here a group of historians, missiologists, and religion scholars examines the fascinating but little known history of missionary Christianity in India, showing how it has played a significant role in the development of modern India at every level. Chapters deal with the interaction between Christianity and India's high culture, with aspects of conversion among tribal people and outcasts beneath the hierarchy of Hindu society, and with the development of Indian churches and their relation to the wider culture. Contributors: Peter B. AndersenMichael BergunderJudith M. BrownSusan Billington HarperBeppe G. KarlssonIndira Viswanathan PetersonAvril A. PowellGerald Studdert-KennedyJohn C. B. WebsterRichard Fox YoungMarc Notes: Bibl. ref. & index; Co-publ. by RoutledgeCurzon, London. Contributor Bio:  Brown, Judith M Judith M. Brown is Beit Professor of Commonwealth History at the University of Oxford. Her many publications include Gandhi and Civil Disobedience: The Mahatma in Indian Politics 1928 1934 (2008), Global South Asians: Introducing the Modern Diaspora (2006), Nehru: A Political Life (2005) and The Oxford History of the British Empire: The Twentieth Century, co-edited with William Roger Louis (2001). Contributor Bio:  Frykenberg, Robert Eric Frykenberg is Professor of History and South Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Contributor Bio:  Low, Alaine At the time of writing, Alaine Low was an associate lecturer at the Open University and the associate editor of the five-volume Oxford History of the British Empire