Religious transformation in South Asia : the meanings of conversion in colonial Punjab / Christopher Harding.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harding, Christopher, 1978-

Series:

Oxford historical monographs.

Oxford historical monographs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conversion--Christianity.

Conversion.

Punjab (India)--Church history.

Punjab (India).

Punjab (Pakistan)--Church history.

Punjab (Pakistan).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (315 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the last decades of the nineteenth century, urgent and unprecedented demands among oppressed peoples in colonial India drove what came to be called 'mass conversion movements' towards a range of Christian denominations, launching a revolution in South Asia's two thousand-year Christian history. For all the scale, drama, and lasting controversy of a movement that approached half a million members in Punjab alone by the end of the 1930s, much actually depended upon a varied range of tempestuous local relationships between converts and mission personnel, based upon uncertain and constantly evo

Contents:

Introduction

The meaning of uplift in Punjab

British Evangelicals vs Belgian Catholics

The communication of Christianity

Living in new traditions

Visions of the future

Conclusion

Appendix: Capuchin missionaries arriving in and leaving Punjab, 1889-1930.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-286) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-156333-1

9786611978785

1-281-97878-7

OCLC:

316066113