Author: Donald Fossett EbrightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indigenous church administration
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
The National Missionary Society of India, 1905-1942
Author: Donald Fossett EbrightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indigenous church administration
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
The National Missionary Society of India, 1905-1942
Author: Donald Fossett EbrightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indigenous church administration
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Author: Susan Billington HarperPublisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 0802846432
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 501
Book Description
This book presents the only critical study of the public life and legacy of V. S. Azariah (1874-1945), the first Indian bishop of an Anglican diocese and the most successful leader of rural conversion movements to Christianity in modern India. Harper carefully explores Bishop Azariah's work, including his attempts to redress racism and improve social conditions in India, and documents -- for the first time anywhere -- the previously unknown controversy between Bishop Azariah and the great Mahatma Gandhi.
A History of the First Cross-cultural Mission of the Mar Thoma Church, 1910-2000
Author: Dr. Alex ThomasPublisher: ISPCK
ISBN: 9788172149697
Category : Christianity and culture
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
With reference to Mar Thoma Syrian Church's mission to North Kanara, India.
In the Shadow of the Mahatma
Author: Susan Billington HarperPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136832645
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 685
Book Description
This is a biography of Vedanayagam Samuel Azariah (1874-1945), bishop of the Anglican Church in India from 1912 until his death in 1945. His life sheds new light on the challenges and opportunities faced by religious minorities throughout the world today. As a Christian leader in a non-Christian culture, he negotiated complex cultural, social, political, and economic pressure with exceptional skill and diplomacy. As the first Indian bishop of an Anglican diocese, and as modern India's most successful leader of depressed class and non-Brahmin conversion movements to Christianity, Azariah was equally at home with the untouchables of rural India and the unreachables of the British Empire. From this platform Azariah inevitably came into contact - and, ironically, also into conflict - with the dominating presence of Mahatma Gandhi. Susan Billington Harper here reconstructs major events and issues of Azariah's public life, including a previously unstudied controversy with Gandhi over the issue of conversion and relgious freedom in the 1930s. Based on hitherto untapped primary sources, including diocesan records and vernacular oral histories expressed in both stories and songs, this fascinating volume not only provides the first critical study of Bishop Azariah's life but also offers important - at times challenging - insights for those interested in modern India and the place of Christianity within it.
Constructing Mission History
Author: Stanley H. SkresletPublisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
ISBN: 1506481892
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 477
Book Description
Challenging other narratives of mission history, Skreslet offers a new speech-act theory approach to the modern roots of World Christianity that differentiates between what a missionary might intend to communicate and the effects of what has been said or actions taken both in the moment and over time.
Christians in Secular India
Author: Abraham Vazhayil ThomasPublisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838610213
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Seeks to explore the role of the Christian community in the Indian secular state. Although the Indian Christian community forms only 2.4 percent of the population, it has played an important part in the social, educational, political, and religious spheres of the recent life of India.
Passages through India
Author: Somak BiswasPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009358650
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Analyses the phenomenon of western Indophilia, its ideological and affective composition, and its political implications in late-colonial British India. Argues that Indophile deployments around transnational projects like abolishing indentured labour and global Hinduism, while anti-colonial, were not necessarily emancipatory.
A History of the London Missionary Society, 1895-1945
Author: Norman GoodallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : London Missionary Society
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Christian Ashrams, Hindu Caves and Sacred Rivers
Author: Mario I. AguilarPublisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN: 1784503479
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
In late 20th-century India, Christian-Hindu dialogue was forever transformed following the opening of Shantivanam, the first Christian ashram in the country. Mario I. Aguilar brings together the histories of the five pioneers of Christian-Hindu dialogue and their involvement with the ashram, to explore what they learnt and taught about communion between the two religions, and the wide ranging consequences of their work. The author expertly threads together the lives and friendships between these men, while uncovering the Hindu texts they used and were influenced by, and considers how far some of them became, in their personal practice, Hindu. Ultimately, this book demonstrates the impact of this history on contemporary dialogue between Christians and Hindus, and how both faiths can continue to learn and grow together.