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Religious Transformation in South Asia - The Meanings of Conversion in Colonial Punjab (Hardcover)
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Religious Transformation in South Asia - The Meanings of Conversion in Colonial Punjab (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Historical Monographs
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In the last decades of the nineteenth century, urgent and
unprecedented demands among oppressed peoples in colonial India
drove what came to be called "mass conversion movements" towards a
range of Christian denominations, launching a revolution in South
Asia's two thousand-year Christian history.
For all the scale, drama, and lasting controversy of a movement
that approached half a million members in Punjab alone by the end
of the 1930s, much actually depended upon a varied range of
tempestuous local relationships between converts and mission
personnel, based upon uncertain and constantly evolving terms.
Making extensive use of Protestant Evangelical and newly-uncovered
Catholic mission sources, Religious Transformation in South Asia
explores those relationships to reveal what lay behind the great
diversity of social and religious aspirations of converts and
mission personnel.
In this highly accessible study, Christopher Harding overturns the
one-dimensional Christian missions of popular imagination by
analysing the way that social class, theological training, culture,
motivation, and personality produced an extraordinary range of
presentations of "Christianity" in late colonial Punjab. Punjabi
converts themselves were animated by a similarly broad spectrum of
expectations and pressures, communicated through informal social
networks and representing a brand of subaltern consciousness and
resistance rarely considered by mainstream Indian historiography.
These internal dynamics produced a first generation of rural
Punjabi Christianity that was locally variable, highly fluid, and
conflict-ridden-testament to the ways in which the meanings of
conversion were contested by allsides in an encounter with
far-reaching implications for the future of Christianity and
religious identity in India and Pakistan.
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