Studies on the history of the church in India
Subtitle: festschrift for Dr. Joseph Thekkedathu S.D.B.
By: edited by Joy Kaipan
Publisher: Kristu Jyoti Publications
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Bangalore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9788187370611
Subjects: Church history; Christianity
Other titles: History of the church in India
Description: Dr. Joseph Thekkedath was born on 27th January, 1928. He joined the Salesian Aspirantate at Tirupattur in 1943 and became a Salesian of Don Bosco on 21st December, 1945 at Dibrugarh. Fr. T.J. was ordained a priest on 8th December, 1955 and began his teaching career which continues even to this day over a span of 50 years. A former President of the Church History Association of India, he has been Rector of Kristu Jyoti College, and also Provincial of the Salesian Province of the Sacred Heart (Bangalore). The articles in this work focus on the general theme of the history of the church in India. In different ways, they throw light on the factors that led and influenced the growth of Christianity in the Indian sub-continent from a historical perspective.--cf. Introd.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Cultural heritage of the St. Thomas Christians / George Menachery; title: The life and missionary activities of Fr. Leonard Cinnami S.J., the founder of the Mysore Mission / Mahimai Dass; title: The Jesuit mission in Mysore between expulsion 1759 and suppression 1773 / Lourdu Prasad Joseph; title: Christianity in Bihar : origin, development and challenges / Jose Kalapura; title: Welsh Presbyterian mission and the development of Protestant Christianity in North East India during the nineteenth century / B.L. Nongbri; title: Church in Jharkhand : mediating social transformation among tribals / Jose Kalapura; title: The missionary dimension of the church and the missionary ideal of Don Bosco; title: Kapplikunnel Mathew; title: Brahmabandhab Upadhyay and Sind Catholic community / Leonard Fernando; title: The Catholic Church in Mumbai in the twentieth century and the growth of social activism / Kranti Kiran Farias.