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Könyv Imperial Fault Lines Jeffrey Cox

Imperial Fault Lines

Christianity and Colonial Power in India, 1818-1940

Szerző: Jeffrey Cox
Nyelv: Angol
Kötés: Kemény kötésű
Kiadó: Stanford University Press
Elérhetőség: Beszállítói készleten
Küldés 14-21 napon belül
32 656 Ft
A history of Christian missionary encounters with non-Christians in a part of the world where there...

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Szerző
Jeffrey Cox
Nyelv
Angol
Kötés
Könyv - Kemény kötésű
Kiadva
2002
oldal
384
EAN
9780804743181
ISBN
0804743185
Enbook ID
04717372
Kiadó
Stanford University Press
Súly
640
Méretek
152 x 229 x 27

Teljes leírás

A history of Christian missionary encounters with non-Christians in a part of the world where there were no Christians at all until the advent of British imperial rule in the early-19th century. As British and American missionaries spread out from Delhi into the heartland of Punjab, their preconceived ideas about Hinduism and Islam broke down rapidly as they established institutions requiring the close co-operation of Indians. Two-thirds of the foreign missionaries who entered the Punjab were women, and issues of gender as well as race were central dilemmas in a cultural encounter that featured numerous irresolvable conflicts. The missionaries' commitment to Christian universalism clashed with the visible realities of their imperial privileges. Although determined to build multiracial institutions based on spiritual equality, missionaries were the beneficiaries of an imperial racial hierarchy. Their social encounters with Indians were exceedingly complex, involving intimacy and affection as well as affronts and betrayals. Missionaries were compelled to react to circumstances not of their own making, and were forced to negotiate and compromise with Indian Christians, government officials, Indian critics of the missionary movement, and the many non-Christian students, patients and staff at large and influential missionary schools, colleges and hospitals. In villages, university-educated clergymen who had hoped to convert the Hindu and Muslim elite found themselves in the surprising position of advocating the rights of stigmatized and oppressed rural labourers. The history of elite institution-building took surprising turns during the rise of the national movement, as missionaries struggled with the conflict between their own transparent entanglement with imperialism and their attempts to foster new forms of indigenous Christianity that would outlive British imperial rule.

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