Christianity in India : from beginnings to the present / [print]
Robert Eric Frykenberg.
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, (c)2010.
- xxi, 564 pages, 8. pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
- Oxford history of the Christian church .
- Oxford history of the Christian Church. .
Originally published: 2008.
Christians, Christianity, and Christendom -- Contextualizing complexity, I : India's lands, peoples, and social structures -- Contextualizing complexity, II : India's dominant religious traditions : Sanatana-Dharma and Dar-ul-Islam -- Thomas Christians and the Thomas tradition -- Pfarangi Catholic Christians and Padroado Christendom -- Evangelical Christians as missionary dubashis : conduits of cross-cultural communication -- India's Raj and political logic : the unification of India, a Southern perspective -- Avarna Christians and conversion movements -- Missionaries, colonialism, and ecclesiastical dominion -- Indian Christians and "Hindu Raj" -- Elite education and missionaries -- Catholic renewal and resurgence -- "Trophies of grace" and their public influence -- Adivasi movements in the north-east.