TY - BOOK AU - Hudson,D.Dennis TI - Protestant origins in India: Tamil Evangelical Christians, 1706-1835 T2 - Studies in the history of Christian missions SN - 0802847218 AV - BV3255.T3 H83 2000 U1 - 266/.00954/8 21 PY - 2000/// CY - Grand Rapids, Mich, Richmond, Surrey, U.K. PB - William B. Eerdmans Pub., Curzon Press KW - Tamil (Indic people) KW - Missions KW - History KW - Protestant churches KW - India, South KW - Protestants KW - Church history N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-208) and index; 1; Beginnings --; Protestant Predecessors --; 2; Spreading the Word --; Language and Velalans --; Insight into 'Heathen Darkness' --; Mutual Perceptions --; First Baptisms --; Spread of the Mission by Europeans --; 3; Pietism in Malabarian Lives --; Aaron: The First Ordained Malabarian Pastor --; Lutheran Pietism --; Rajanayakan: The Catechist --; Religious Discussions --; Exposition through Liturgy --; 4; 'Mahometans' or 'Moors' --; The 'Mahometans' or Moors' --; 5; 'Pagans' --; Dandapani Swami's 'Scripture of Truth' --; The 'Civilized' and the 'Alien' in Ancient Tamil Literature --; Three Types of 'Sudras' Dwelling in the Ur --; Velalans as 'Sudras' Dwelling in the Ur --; 'Pariahs' as 'Aliens' in the Ceri and the Wild --; 6; 'Pagan' Thought in Tranquebar and Tanjore --; Evangelical Rites in a 'Pagan' Context --; 7; Patterns in Development --; Roman Catholic Predecessors --; Evangelical Soldiers --; Expansion to the South --; A Velalan Protestant Culture --; 8; Vedanayagam Pillai, the Sastri (1774-1864) --; The Father --; The Son --; Early Poems --; Vedanayagam Becomes Sastri --; Sastri and His Family --; The Years of Dissension in the Tanjore Congregation --; Evangelical Sastri and Saiva King --; 9; 'New Missionaries' and the Tanjore Congregation --; Bible Translation --; Four 'Cruelties' --; Liturgical Practices --; Observance of Caste Distinctions --; The 'Foolishness of Amending Caste' --; 10; Final Thoughts --; A Theology of Pluralism --; The Intellectual Impact of Colonizing Europe ER -