Christians in South Indian Villages, 1959-2009
A discerning study of a slice of modern Indian Christianity and Christian-Hindu encounter This book revisits South Indian Christian communities that were studied in 1959 and written about in Village Christians and Hindu Culture (1968). In 1959 the future of these village congregations was uncertain. Would they grow through conversions or slowly dissolve into the larger Hindu society around them? John Carman and Chilkuri Vasantha Rao's carefully gathered research fifty years later reveals both the decline of many older congregations and the surprising emergence of new Pentecostal and Baptist churches that emphasize the healing power of Christ.…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4674-4205-3
- EAN: 9781467442053
- Produktnummer: 37843978
- Verlag: Eerdmans
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 0 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
Über den Autor
John B. Carman, former director of the Center for the Studyof World Religions at Harvard University, is the ParkmanProfessor of Divinity and professor of comparative religionat Harvard Divinity School. His previous works includeThe Theology of Ramanuja: An Essay in InterreligiousUnderstanding.
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