Christianity in India
By studying the history and sources of the Thomas Christians of India, a community of pre-colonial Christian heritage, this book revisits the assumption that Christianity is Western and colonial and that Christians in the non-West are products of colonial and post-colonial missionaries. Christians i...
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| description | By studying the history and sources of the Thomas Christians of India, a community of pre-colonial Christian heritage, this book revisits the assumption that Christianity is Western and colonial and that Christians in the non-West are products of colonial and post-colonial missionaries. Christians in the East have had a difficult time getting heard—let alone understood as anti-colonial. This is a problem, especially in studies on India, where the focus has typically been on North India and British colonialism and its impact in the era of globalization. This book analyzes texts and contexts to show how communities of Indian Christians predetermined Western expansionist goals and later defined the Western colonial and Indian national imaginary. Combining historical research and literary analysis, the author prompts a re-evaluation of how Indian Christians reacted to colonialism in India and its potential to influence ongoing events of religious intolerance. Through a rethinking of a postcolonial theoretical framework, this book argues that Thomas Christians attempted an anti-colonial turn in the face of ecclesiastical and civic occupation that was colonial at its core. A novel intervention, this book takes up South India and the impact of Portuguese colonialism in both the early modern and contemporary period. It will be of interest to academics in the fields of Renaissance/Early Modern Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Religious Studies, Christianity, and South Asia. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1599372025-05-20T06:17:18Z Christianity in India Joseph, Clara A.B. Thomas Christians Home Town Indian Christians East Indies Western Sahara Ship Owner South Western India Pero Da Covilha Liber Secretorum Fidelium Crucis Antonio De Gouvea Chaldean Church Nation Building Missionary Christianity Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu Pope Calixtus II Cheraman Perumal European Missionaries Gauri Viswanathan Gorgias Press Indian Christianity Tawny Men Gama’s Arrival thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRM Christianity thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTM Regional / International studies thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRA Religion: general::QRAX History of religion thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBH Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000::DSBH5 Literary studies: postcolonial literature By studying the history and sources of the Thomas Christians of India, a community of pre-colonial Christian heritage, this book revisits the assumption that Christianity is Western and colonial and that Christians in the non-West are products of colonial and post-colonial missionaries. Christians in the East have had a difficult time getting heard—let alone understood as anti-colonial. This is a problem, especially in studies on India, where the focus has typically been on North India and British colonialism and its impact in the era of globalization. This book analyzes texts and contexts to show how communities of Indian Christians predetermined Western expansionist goals and later defined the Western colonial and Indian national imaginary. Combining historical research and literary analysis, the author prompts a re-evaluation of how Indian Christians reacted to colonialism in India and its potential to influence ongoing events of religious intolerance. Through a rethinking of a postcolonial theoretical framework, this book argues that Thomas Christians attempted an anti-colonial turn in the face of ecclesiastical and civic occupation that was colonial at its core. A novel intervention, this book takes up South India and the impact of Portuguese colonialism in both the early modern and contemporary period. It will be of interest to academics in the fields of Renaissance/Early Modern Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Religious Studies, Christianity, and South Asia. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. 2025-05-20T06:17:17Z 2025-05-20T06:17:17Z 2025-05-19T07:30:54Z 2019 book ONIX_20250519T091213_9781351123853_45 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/102112 9781351123853 9781351123839 9780367200947 9781351123846 9780815357742 9780367660338 9781351123860 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/159937 eng Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/102112/1/9781351123853.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781351123860 10.4324/9781351123860 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 9781351123853 9781351123839 9780367200947 9781351123846 9780815357742 9780367660338 9781351123860 Routledge 188 Oxford open access |
| spellingShingle | Thomas Christians Home Town Indian Christians East Indies Western Sahara Ship Owner South Western India Pero Da Covilha Liber Secretorum Fidelium Crucis Antonio De Gouvea Chaldean Church Nation Building Missionary Christianity Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu Pope Calixtus II Cheraman Perumal European Missionaries Gauri Viswanathan Gorgias Press Indian Christianity Tawny Men Gama’s Arrival thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRM Christianity thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTM Regional / International studies thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRA Religion: general::QRAX History of religion thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBH Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000::DSBH5 Literary studies: postcolonial literature Joseph, Clara A.B. Christianity in India |
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| topic | Thomas Christians Home Town Indian Christians East Indies Western Sahara Ship Owner South Western India Pero Da Covilha Liber Secretorum Fidelium Crucis Antonio De Gouvea Chaldean Church Nation Building Missionary Christianity Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu Pope Calixtus II Cheraman Perumal European Missionaries Gauri Viswanathan Gorgias Press Indian Christianity Tawny Men Gama’s Arrival thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRM Christianity thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTM Regional / International studies thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRA Religion: general::QRAX History of religion thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBH Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000::DSBH5 Literary studies: postcolonial literature |
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