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

By: Material type: TextSeries: Global pentecostal and charismatic ChristianityPublisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2015Description: ix, 208 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780190202101
  • 0190202106
  • 9780190202095
  • 0190202092
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BR 1644.5 .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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Book Storms Research Center Main Collection BR 1644.5 .I4 B38 2015 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 98650514

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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