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Religious transformation in South Asia : the meanings of conversion in colonial Punjab / Christopher Harding.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Oxford historical monographsPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.Description: ix, 298 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780199548224 (alk. paper)
  • 0199548226 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 275.4/5508 22
LOC classification:
  • BR1156.P86 H37 2008
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Contents:
Introduction -- The meaning of uplift in Punjab -- British Evangelicals vs Belgian Catholics -- The communication of Christianity -- Living in new traditions -- Visions of the future -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Capuchin missionaries arriving in and leaving Punjab, 1889-1930.
1. The Meaning of Uplif in Punjab -- 2. British Evangelicals vs Belgian Catholics -- 3. The Commuuication of Chrisrianity -- 4. Living in New Traditions -- 5. Visions of the Future -- App. Capuchin Missionaries Arriving in and Leaving Punjab, 1889-1930.
Review: "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 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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-286) and index.

Introduction -- The meaning of uplift in Punjab -- British Evangelicals vs Belgian Catholics -- The communication of Christianity -- Living in new traditions -- Visions of the future -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Capuchin missionaries arriving in and leaving Punjab, 1889-1930.

1. The Meaning of Uplif in Punjab -- 2. British Evangelicals vs Belgian Catholics -- 3. The Commuuication of Chrisrianity -- 4. Living in New Traditions -- 5. Visions of the Future -- App. Capuchin Missionaries Arriving in and Leaving Punjab, 1889-1930.

"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 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."--BOOK JACKET.

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