India and the Indianness of Christianity
Subtitle: essays on understanding, "historical, theological, and bibliographical," in honor of Robert Eric Frykenberg
By: edited by Richard Fox Young.
Contributors: Frykenberg, Robert Eric.; Young, Richard Fox.
Series: Studies in the history of Christian missions
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Pub.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780802863928
Subjects: Missions -- India; Christianity -- India
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Indian participation in enabling, sustaining, and promoting Christian mission in India / Daniel Jeyaraj; title: "Ancient churches" and modern missions in the nineteenth century / Wilbert R. Shenk; title: Empire and misinformation : Christianity and colonial knowledge from a South Indian Hindu perspective (ca. 1804) / Richard Fox Young; title: Creating Christian community in early-nineteenth-century Agra / Avril A. Powell; title: An "ardour" of devotion : the spiritual legacy of Henry Martyn / Brian Stanley; title: Revival, syncretism, and the anticolonial discourse of the Kherwar movement, 1871-1910 / Peter B. Andersen; title: Caste, Catholicism, and history "from below," 1863-1917 / Chandra Mallampalli; title: Hindu pundits and missionary "knowledge" of Hinduism / Geoffrey A. Oddie; title: Proselytism in the history of Christianity in India / Michael Bergunder; title: Anticipating independent India : the idea of the Lutheran Christian nation and Indian nationalism / Gunnel Cederlöf; title: Indian Christians and Nehru's nation-state / Judith M. Brown; title: Christian interpretation of "Hinduism" : between understanding and theological judgment / John B. Carman; title: An overview and analysis of missionary collections in the United Kingdom relating to South Asia / Rosemary Seton; title: North American sources for the study of Protestant Christian missions in India / Martha Lund Smalley.