PENTECOSTALS PROSELYTIZATION AND ANTI CHRISTIAN VIOLENCE IN CONTEMPORARY INDIA - Couverture souple

BAUMAN, Chad M.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0190202106 ISBN 13 : 9780190202101

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2015

Synopsis

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 a Christian propensity for aggressive proselytization, or by rumored or real conversions to the faith. Pentecostals are disproportionately targeted.

Drawing on extensive interviews, ethnographic work, and a vast scholarly literature on interreligious violence, Hindu nationalism, and Christianity in India, Chad Bauman examines this phenomenon. While some of the factors in the targeting of Pentecostals are obvious and expected-their relatively greater evangelical assertiveness, for instance-other significant factors are less acknowledged and more surprising: marginalization of Pentecostals by "mainstream" Christians, the social location of Pentecostal Christians, and transnational flows of missionary personnel, theories, and funds. A detailed analysis of Indian Christian history, contemporary Indian politics, Indian social and cultural characteristics, and Pentecostal belief and practice, this volume sheds important light on a troubling fact of contemporary Indian life.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Chad Bauman is Associate Professor of Religion at Butler University and is the author of Christian Identity and Dalit Religion in Hindu India, 1868-1947.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0190202106
• ISBN 13: 9780190202101
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 228
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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