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Desi diaspora : ministry among scattered global Indian Christians /

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Bangalore, SAIACS Press, c2019.Description: 241 pages, 22 cmISBN:
  • 9789386549204
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 266.023 G347D
Contents:
Indians make up one of the largest diaspora communities in the world and Christians constitute a relatively larger share of it. Indian Christians are more likely to migrate abroad on account of not being imprisoned to the land or culture as espoused in some civilizational and religious beliefs. They have successfully transplanted themselves in every time zone all over the globe and have recreated and adapted their native faith practices in foreign lands. many from diverse religious and cultural backgrounds hav3 embraced Christianity in their places of settlement. This book prtrays a contemporary account of Chrisians of indian origin who live around the globe and showcases triumphs and challenges of religious life of dispaersed people. It presents Christian experiences from a pletora of discrete perspectives like Orthodox, Catholic, Reformed, Evangelical and Pentecostal of Kerala, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Gujarati, Punjabi, Goan and other backgrounds. This book comprises diasporic communal history, struggles of identity and belongign, religious conversion, preservation and adaptation of fiath practices, ties between ancestral homeland and host nation and generational tensions from pastoral and missiological dimensions in diaspora.
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Indians make up one of the largest diaspora communities in the world and Christians constitute a relatively larger share of it. Indian Christians are more likely to migrate abroad on account of not being imprisoned to the land or culture as espoused in some civilizational and religious beliefs. They have successfully transplanted themselves in every time zone all over the globe and have recreated and adapted their native faith practices in foreign lands. many from diverse religious and cultural backgrounds hav3 embraced Christianity in their places of settlement. This book prtrays a contemporary account of Chrisians of indian origin who live around the globe and showcases triumphs and challenges of religious life of dispaersed people. It presents Christian experiences from a pletora of discrete perspectives like Orthodox, Catholic, Reformed, Evangelical and Pentecostal of Kerala, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Gujarati, Punjabi, Goan and other backgrounds. This book comprises diasporic communal history, struggles of identity and belongign, religious conversion, preservation and adaptation of fiath practices, ties between ancestral homeland and host nation and generational tensions from pastoral and missiological dimensions in diaspora.

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