Books > Social sciences > Politics & government
|
Buy Now
Pentecostals, Proselytization, and Anti-Christian Violence in Contemporary India (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R3,522
Discovery Miles 35 220
|
|
Pentecostals, Proselytization, and Anti-Christian Violence in Contemporary India (Hardcover)
Series: Global Pentecostalism and Charismatic Christianity
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
Every year, there are several hundred attacks on India's
Christians. These attacks are carried out by violent anti-minority
activists, many of them provoked by what they perceive to be
Christians' propensity for aggressive proselytization, and/or by
rumored or real conversions to the faith. In this violence,
Pentecostal Christians are disproportionately targeted. Bauman
finds that the violence against Pentecostals and Pentecostalized
Evangelicals in India is not just a matter of current social,
cultural, political, and interreligious dynamics internal to India,
but is rather related to identifiable historical trends, as well as
to historical and contemporary transnational flows of people,
power, and ideas. Based on extensive interviews and ethnographic
work, and drawing upon the vast scholarly literature on
interreligious violence, Hindu nationalism, and Christianity in
India, this volume accounts for this disproportionate targeting
through a detailed analysis of Indian Christian history,
contemporary Indian politics, Indian social and cultural
characteristics, and Pentecostal belief and practice. While some of
the factors in the targeting of Pentecostals are obvious and
expected (e.g., their relatively greater evangelical
assertiveness), other significant factors are less acknowledged and
more surprising, among them the marginalization of Pentecostals by
"mainstream" Christians, the social location of Pentecostal
Christians, and transnational flows of missionary personnel,
theories, and funds.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.