Christian Inculturation in India - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Christian Inculturation in India write by Paul M. Collins. This book was released on 2016-09-17. Christian Inculturation in India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Drawing together international and Indian sources, and new research on the ground in South India, this book presents a unique examination of the inculturation of Christian Worship in India. Paul M. Collins examines the imperatives underlying the processes of inculturation - the dynamic relationship between the Christian message and cultures - and then explores the outcomes of those processes in terms of architecture, liturgy and ritual, and the critique offered of these outcomes, especially by Dalit theologians. This book highlights how the Indian context has informed global discussions, and how the decisions of the World Council of Churches, Vatican II and Lambeth Conferences have impacted upon the Indian context.
Christian Ashrams, Hindu Caves and Sacred Rivers
Christian Ashrams, Hindu Caves and Sacred Rivers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Christian Ashrams, Hindu Caves and Sacred Rivers write by Mario I. Aguilar. This book was released on 2016-07-01. Christian Ashrams, Hindu Caves and Sacred Rivers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In late 20th-century India, Christian-Hindu dialogue was forever transformed following the opening of Shantivanam, the first Christian ashram in the country. Mario I. Aguilar brings together the histories of the five pioneers of Christian-Hindu dialogue and their involvement with the ashram, to explore what they learnt and taught about communion between the two religions, and the wide ranging consequences of their work. The author expertly threads together the lives and friendships between these men, while uncovering the Hindu texts they used and were influenced by, and considers how far some of them became, in their personal practice, Hindu. Ultimately, this book demonstrates the impact of this history on contemporary dialogue between Christians and Hindus, and how both faiths can continue to learn and grow together.
The Christian Ashram Movement in India
The Christian Ashram Movement in India - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Christian Ashram Movement in India write by Zdeněk Štipl. This book was released on 2020-03-20. The Christian Ashram Movement in India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is one of the first to present a definitive history of the Christian Ashram Movement. It offers insights into the development of the Movement, Europe’s Orientalist view of Eastern mysticism and how the concept of the "ashram" spread beyond the borders of India. Drawing extensively from ashram literature and the author’s field research, the book critically analyzes the notions of inculturation in the encounter between Christianity and Hindu spirituality and ritualism. It looks at how the Movement grew out of the colonial encounter and how it evolved through the years, which was contingent on developments within Christian churches outside India. The volume also discusses the reinterpretation of the idea of the "ashram" by Christian theologians, the introduction of elite Brahmanical concepts within the Movement and the unique theological perspectives which were nurtured in these ashrams. The book offers an alternative perspective to the generally perceived history of Christianity in India. It will be of interest to scholars and researchers of religious studies, Christianity, sociology, social anthropology and religious history.
Constructing Indian Christianities
Constructing Indian Christianities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Constructing Indian Christianities write by Chad M. Bauman. This book was released on 2014-08-07. Constructing Indian Christianities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume offers insights into the current ‘public-square’ debates on Indian Christianity. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork as well as rigorous analyses, it discusses the myriad histories of Christianity in India, its everyday practice and contestations and the process of its indigenisation. It addresses complex and pertinent themes such as Dalit Indian Christianity, diasporic nationalism and conversion. The work will interest scholars and researchers of religious studies, Dalit and subaltern studies, modern Indian history, and politics.
Religious Journeys in India
Religious Journeys in India - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religious Journeys in India write by Andrea Marion Pinkney. This book was released on 2018-08-20. Religious Journeys in India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores how religious travel in India is transforming religious identities and self-constructions. In an increasingly global world where convenient modes of travel have opened the door to international and intraregional tourism and brought together people from different religious and ethnic communities, religious journeying in India has become the site of evolving and often paradoxical forms of self-construction. Through ethnographic reflections, the contributors to this volume explore religious and nonreligious motivations for religious travel in India and show how pilgrimages, missionary travel, the exportation of cultural art forms, and leisure travel among coreligionists are transforming not only religious but also regional, national, transnational, and personal identities. The volume engages with central themes in South Asian studies such as gender, exile, and spirituality; a variety of religions, including Sikhism, Islam, Buddhism, and Christianity; and understudied regions and emerging places of pilgrimage such as Manipur and Maharashtra. Its rare to find such diverse accounts of religious travel collected in a single volume, where scholars engagements with individual places of pilgrimage in India and with the journeys surrounding them are truly in conversation with one another. For readers, it makes for a deeply enlightening journey. It also raises an interesting question: Is the reality of India powerful enough that it absorbs divergent expressions of religious tourism, making of them a common fabric? Here, so unusually, readers have the materials to decide. John Stratton Hawley, author of A Storm of Songs: India and the Idea of the Bhakti Movement
