Pentecostals, proselytization, and anti-Christian violence in contemporary India /

Bauman, Chad M.,

Pentecostals, proselytization, and anti-Christian violence in contemporary India / - Oxford, Oxford University Press ©2015 - ix, 208 Pages : illustrations ; 24 cm - Global pentecostal and charismatic Christianity .

Includes bibliographical references and index

Who are India's pentecostals? : history, definitions, deliberations -- Pentecostalism in the context of Indian history and politics -- Where the spirit (of violence) leads : the disproportionate -- Targeting of Indian Pentecostals -- Force, fraud, and inducement? : recuperative conversions -- And the growth of Indian Christianity -- Missions and the Pentecostalization of Indian Christianity

9780190202101 0190202106 9780190202095 0190202092

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Pentecostalism--History--India
Pentecostals--Violence against--History--India
Christians--Violence against--History--India


India--Church history

BR1644.5.I4 / B38 2015