Christian Contribution to Indian Languages and Literatures
Title | Christian Contribution to Indian Languages and Literatures PDF eBook |
Author | Va Jayatēvan̲ |
Publisher | |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Christianity in literature |
ISBN |
Anthology of papers presented at a seminar held in Dhyana Ashram, Madras, between 28th-30th Jan. 1994.
Hindi Christian Literature in Contemporary India
Title | Hindi Christian Literature in Contemporary India PDF eBook |
Author | Rakesh Peter-Dass |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 217 |
Release | 2019-09-12 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1000702243 |
This is the first academic study of Christian literature in Hindi and its role in the politics of language and religion in contemporary India. In public portrayals, Hindi has been the language of Hindus and Urdu the language of Muslims, but Christians have been usually been associated with the English of the foreign ‘West’. However, this book shows how Christian writers in India have adopted Hindi in order to promote a form of Christianity that can be seen as Indian, desī, and rooted in the religio-linguistic world of the Hindi belt. Using three case studies, the book demonstrates how Hindi Christian writing strategically presents Christianity as linguistically Hindi, culturally Indian, and theologically informed by other faiths. These works are written to sway public perceptions by promoting particular forms of citizenship in the context of fostering the use of Hindi. Examining the content and context of Christian attention to Hindi, it is shown to have been deployed as a political and cultural tool by Christians in India. This book gives an important insight into the link between language and religion in India. As such, it will be of great interest to scholars of Religion in India, World Christianity, Religion and Politics and Interreligious Dialogue, as well as Religious Studies and South Asian Studies.
Creating Christian Indians
Title | Creating Christian Indians PDF eBook |
Author | Bonnie Sue Lewis |
Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press |
Pages | 318 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780806135168 |
"Creating Christian Indians takes issue with the widespread consensus that missions to North American indigenous peoples routinely destroyed native cultures and that becoming Christian was fundamentally incompatible with retaining traditional Indian identities"--from jkt.
Statistical Atlas of Christian Missions
Title | Statistical Atlas of Christian Missions PDF eBook |
Author | Harlan Page Beach |
Publisher | |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 1910 |
Genre | Evangelistic work |
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The Cultural Heritage of India: Languages and literatures. Reprint, 1991
Title | The Cultural Heritage of India: Languages and literatures. Reprint, 1991 PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 874 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | India |
ISBN |
An Indian to the Indians?
Title | An Indian to the Indians? PDF eBook |
Author | Reinhard Wendt |
Publisher | Otto Harrassowitz Verlag |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 9783447051613 |
Preface in German; abstracts in English and German.
Christianity in India
Title | Christianity in India PDF eBook |
Author | Leonard Fernando (s.j.) |
Publisher | Penguin Books India |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780670057696 |
"Written by two of the country's foremost theologians, Christianity in India traces the fascinating history of each of these communities, and describes the role of Christians in education, social services, multilingual publishing and the freedom struggle. The authors explain to non-Christians the tenets and rituals that bind the faithful, whether Catholic, Protestant or Orthodox - prayer, the Sunday service, baptism and marriage, the role of Jesus in daily life, Christians' understanding of other faiths - and examine the controversial issues of caste within Christianity and conversions from other faiths."--BOOK JACKET.