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Pentecostals, proselytization, and anti-Christian violence in contemporary India / Chad M. Bauman

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Global pentecostal and charismatic ChristianityPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 2015Description: ix, 208 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780190202101
  • 0190202106
  • 9780190202095
  • 0190202092
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • ARCH FRBC 230.0954 B347P
LOC classification:
  • BR1644.5.I4 B38 2015
Contents:
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
Summary: In contemporary violence against India's Christians, Pentecostals are disproportionately targeted. Based on extensive interviews and ethnographic work, this volume accounts for this disproportionate targeting through a detailed analysis of Indian Christian history, contemporary Indian politics, and Indian social and cultural characteristics
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Archives Archives SAIACS Archives Room Frykenberg Collection ARCH FRBC 230.0954 B347P (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan 067024

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

In contemporary violence against India's Christians, Pentecostals are disproportionately targeted. Based on extensive interviews and ethnographic work, this volume accounts for this disproportionate targeting through a detailed analysis of Indian Christian history, contemporary Indian politics, and Indian social and cultural characteristics

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