Transposition and transformation, controversy and discovery on the Christian encounter with the religions of eighteenth and nineteenth-century India
By: edited by Karin Preisendanz and Johanna Buss
Series: Publications of the De Nobili Research Library -- volume XXXVIII; Publications of the De Nobili Research Library -- v. 38.
Publisher: Verein "Sammlung de Nobili - Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Indologie und Religionsforschung"
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Wien
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9783900271473
Subjects: Church history
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction - Laudation - Devotional Christianity and Pre-Indology in early eighteenth-century Kerala: Johann Ernst Hanxleden, S.J., alias Arnos Padiri, scholar and poet - the Emergence of Resistant Judaism in colonial Bombay: Christian missionaries, Cochin Jews, and the Hebraization of India's Bene Israel Jews, 1738-1905; title: "...But knows not of his need of the atonement": Rammohun Roy's selective construction of Christianity in his precepts of Jesus and dispute about "True Christianity" in early nineteenth-century Calcutta - The Scottish "Discovery" of Jainism in Nineteenth-Century Bombay - The authors.