TY - BOOK AU - Bauman,Chad M TI - Pentecostals, proselytization, and anti-Christian violence in contemporary India T2 - Global pentecostal and charismatic Christianity SN - 9780190202101 AV - BR1644.5.I4 B38 2015 U1 - ARCH FRBC 230.0954 B347P PY - 2015/// CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press, KW - Pentecostalism KW - India KW - History KW - Pentecostals KW - Violence against KW - Christians KW - Church history N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -