TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jones,Arun W.
TI  - Missionary Christianity and local religion: American Evangelicalism in North India, 1836-1870 
T2  - Studies in world Christianity
SN  - 9781602584327
AV  - BV3280.N5 J66 2017
U1  - ARCH FRBC 275.408 J76M  23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Texas
PB  - Baylor university press, 
KW  - Missions, American
KW  - India, North
KW  - History
KW  - Christianity and other religions
KW  - Christianity
KW  - fast
KW  - Interfaith relations
KW  - Church history
N1  - Includes bibliography (pages 287-310) and indexes; The religious context in North India : Hinduism, Islam and Christianity -- The religious context in North India : American evangelicalism -- The missionaries : religious and social innovators -- Indian workers and leaders : negotiating boundaries -- Theology in a new context -- Community in a new context
N2  - Missionary Christianity and Local Religion provides portrayals and analyses of the ideas, motivations, and activities of the diverse individuals who formed and nurtured a flourishing North Indian Christian movement that was both evangelical and rooted in local religious and social realities. This exploration of new Christian communities created by the confluences and divergences between American evangelical and bhakti religious traditions reveals the birth and early growth of one of the many incarnations of Christianity.--Publisher
ER  -