- Title Pages
- Preface
- List of Maps
- List of Illustrations
- 1 INTRODUCTION: CHRISTIANS, CHRISTIANITY, AND CHRISTENDOM
- 2 CONTEXTUALIZING COMPLEXITY, I: INDIA'S LANDS, PEOPLES, AND SOCIAL STRUCTURES
- 3 CONTEXTUALIZING COMPLEXITY, II: INDIA'S DOMINANT RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS: <i>SANĀTANA‐DHARMA</i> AND <i>DAR‐UL‐ISLAM</i>
- 4 THOMAS CHRISTIANS AND THE THOMAS TRADITION
- 5 <i>PFARANGI</i> CATHOLIC CHRISTIANS AND <i>PADROADO</i> CHRISTENDOM
- 6 EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS AS MISSIONARY <i>DUBASHIS</i>: CONDUITS OF CROSS‐CULTURAL COMMUNICATION
- 7 INDIA'S RAJ AND POLITICAL LOGIC: THE UNIFICATION OF INDIA, A SOUTHERN PERSPECTIVE
- 8 <i>ĀVARNA</i> CHRISTIANS AND CONVERSION MOVEMENTS
- 9 MISSIONARIES, COLONIALISM, AND ECCLESIASTICAL DOMINION
- 10 INDIAN CHRISTIANS AND ‘HINDU RAJ’
- 11 ELITE EDUCATION AND MISSIONARIES
- 12 CATHOLIC RENEWAL AND RESURGENCE
- 13 ‘TROPHIES OF GRACE’ AND THEIR PUBLIC INFLUENCE
- 14 <i>ADIVĀSI</i><sup>1</sup> MOVEMENTS IN THE NORTH‐EAST
- 15 CONCLUSION AND EPILOGUE
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- GLOSSARY: SELECT COLLECTION OF TERMS
- INDEX
INTRODUCTION: CHRISTIANS, CHRISTIANITY, AND CHRISTENDOM
INTRODUCTION: CHRISTIANS, CHRISTIANITY, AND CHRISTENDOM
- Chapter:
- (p.1) 1 INTRODUCTION: CHRISTIANS, CHRISTIANITY, AND CHRISTENDOM
- Source:
- Christianity in India
- Author(s):
Robert Eric Frykenberg (Contributor Webpage)
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This introductory chapter begins with a discussion of the initial expansions of the ‘Word of God’ and Christianity across the world. It then discusses the primal religions and Christianity, and attempts to write a history of Christianity in India.
Keywords: God, gospel, Christianity, religion, proliferation, India
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- Title Pages
- Preface
- List of Maps
- List of Illustrations
- 1 INTRODUCTION: CHRISTIANS, CHRISTIANITY, AND CHRISTENDOM
- 2 CONTEXTUALIZING COMPLEXITY, I: INDIA'S LANDS, PEOPLES, AND SOCIAL STRUCTURES
- 3 CONTEXTUALIZING COMPLEXITY, II: INDIA'S DOMINANT RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS: <i>SANĀTANA‐DHARMA</i> AND <i>DAR‐UL‐ISLAM</i>
- 4 THOMAS CHRISTIANS AND THE THOMAS TRADITION
- 5 <i>PFARANGI</i> CATHOLIC CHRISTIANS AND <i>PADROADO</i> CHRISTENDOM
- 6 EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS AS MISSIONARY <i>DUBASHIS</i>: CONDUITS OF CROSS‐CULTURAL COMMUNICATION
- 7 INDIA'S RAJ AND POLITICAL LOGIC: THE UNIFICATION OF INDIA, A SOUTHERN PERSPECTIVE
- 8 <i>ĀVARNA</i> CHRISTIANS AND CONVERSION MOVEMENTS
- 9 MISSIONARIES, COLONIALISM, AND ECCLESIASTICAL DOMINION
- 10 INDIAN CHRISTIANS AND ‘HINDU RAJ’
- 11 ELITE EDUCATION AND MISSIONARIES
- 12 CATHOLIC RENEWAL AND RESURGENCE
- 13 ‘TROPHIES OF GRACE’ AND THEIR PUBLIC INFLUENCE
- 14 <i>ADIVĀSI</i><sup>1</sup> MOVEMENTS IN THE NORTH‐EAST
- 15 CONCLUSION AND EPILOGUE
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- GLOSSARY: SELECT COLLECTION OF TERMS
- INDEX
