Author: Mary WeitbrechtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 522
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Missionary Sketches in North India
Author: Mary WeitbrechtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 522
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The Christian Observer
Author: The Christian observer [afterw.] The Christian observer and advocate
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Author: Catalogue of the Foreign Mission Library of the Divinity School of Yale University, New Haven, Conn
Author: Yale University. Divinity School. Day Missions LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Catalogue of the Foreign Mission Library of the Divinity School of Yale University, New Haven, Conn. No. 1[-6] January, 1892[-March, 1902].
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Author: Yale University. Divinity School. Day missions libraryPublisher:
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Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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The Colonial Church Chronicle, and Missionary Journal
Author: The Colonial Church chronicle, and missionary journal. July 1847-Dec. 1874
Author: Converting Women
Author: Eliza F. KentPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198036951
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
With the emergence of Hindu nationalism, the conversion of Indians to Christianity has become a volatile issue, erupting in violence against converts and missionaries. At the height of British colonialism, however, conversion was a path to upward mobility for low-castes and untouchables, especially in the Tamil-speaking south of India. In this book, Eliza F. Kent takes a fresh look at these conversions, focusing especially on the experience of women converts and the ways in which conversion transformed gender roles and expectations. Kent argues that the creation of a new, "respectable" community identity was central to the conversion process for the agricultural laborers and artisans who embraced Protestant Christianity under British rule. At the same time, she shows, this new identity was informed as much by elite Sanskritic customs and ideologies as by Western Christian discourse. Stigmatized by the dominant castes for their ritually polluting occupations and relaxed rules governing kinship and marriage, low-caste converts sought to validate their new higher-status identity in part by the reform of gender relations. These reforms affected ideals of femininity and masculinity in the areas of marriage, domesticity, and dress. By the creation of a "discourse of respectability," says Kent, Tamil Christians hoped to counter the cultural justifications for their social, economic, and sexual exploitation at the hands of high-caste landowners and village elites. Kent's focus on the interactions between Western women missionaries and the Indian Christian women not only adds depth to our understanding of colonial and patriarchal power dynamics, but to the intricacies of conversion itself. Posing an important challenge to normative notions of conversion as a privatized, individual moment in time, Kent's study takes into consideration the ways that public behavior, social status, and the transformation of everyday life inform religious conversion.
Catalogue of the Library of the India Office
Author: India Office LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Indic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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Catalogue of the Library of the India Office
Author: Great Britain. India Office. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 586
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