Christianity in India : from beginnings to the present /
Robert Frykenberg's insightful study explores and enhances historical understandings of Christian communities, cultures, and institutions within the Indian world from their beginnings down to the present. As one out of several manifestations of a newly emerging World Christianity, in which Chri...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2008.
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| Series: | Oxford history of the Christian Church.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Robert Frykenberg's insightful study explores and enhances historical understandings of Christian communities, cultures, and institutions within the Indian world from their beginnings down to the present. As one out of several manifestations of a newly emerging World Christianity, in which Christians of a Post-Christian West are a minority, it has focused upon those trans-cultural interactions within Hindu and Muslim environments which have made Christians in this part of the worlddistinctive. It seeks to uncover various complexities in the proliferation of Christianity in its many forms and t. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxi, 564 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 485-515) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191544194 0191544191 |