Cultural Encounters in India
Subtitle: The Local Co-Workers of Tranquebar Mission, 18th to 19th Centuries
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 558
ISBN-13: 9781138102682
Subjects: Missions, india; Lutheran church, missions; India, church history
Description: The history of social and religious encounter in 18th century South India is narrated through fascinating biographies and day to day lives of Indian workers in the Tranquebar Mission (1706-1845). The book challenges the notion that Christianity in colonial India was basically imposed from the outside. Liebau maintains that significant contributions were made by the local converts and mission co-workers who played an important role in the Tranquebar Mission.