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Missionary Christianity and Local Religion - American Evangelicalism in North India, 1836-1870 (Hardcover)
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Missionary Christianity and Local Religion - American Evangelicalism in North India, 1836-1870 (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in World Christianity
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The first Christian communities were established among the
population of Hindi- and Urdu-speaking North India during the
middle of the nineteenth century. The evangelical North American
Presbyterian and Methodist missionaries who arrived in what were
considered the Hindu heartlands discovered a social and religious
landscape far more diverse than expected. With its Hindu majority
and significant Muslim minority, the region also proved home to
reform and renewal movements both within and beyond Hinduism. These
movements had already carved out niches for religious difference,
niches where Christianity took root. In Missionary Christianity and
Local Religion Arun Jones documents the story of how preexisting
indigenous bhakti movements and western missionary evangelicalism
met to form the cornerstone for the foundational communities of
North Indian Christianity. Moreover, while newly arrived
missionaries may have reported their exploits as totally fresh
encounters with the local population, they built their work on the
existing fledgling gatherings of Christians such as European
colonial officials, merchants, and soldiers, and their Indian and
Eurasian family members. Jones demonstrates how foreign
missionaries, Indian church leaders, and converts alike all had to
negotiate the complex parameters of historic Indian religious and
social institutions and cultures, as well as navigate the realities
of the newly established British Empire. Missionary Christianity
and Local Religion provides portrayals and analyses of the ideas,
motivations, and activities of the diverse individuals who formed
and nurtured a flourishing North Indian Christian movement that was
both evangelical and rooted in local religious and social
realities. This exploration of new Christian communities created by
the confluences and divergences between American evangelical and
Indian bhakti religious traditions reveals the birth and early
growth of one of the many incarnations of Christianity.
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