A Social History of Christianity

North-West India Since 1800 (Oip)
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-19-947837-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA

Buch, Englisch, 428 Seiten, Book, Format (B × H): 144 mm x 221 mm, Gewicht: 376 g

This study in regional social history deals with what the British census referred to as 'The Punjab and its Dependencies'. Since that time the region has been subdivided several times, most importantly in 1947 when the partition line separating India and Pakistan went right through the middle of the region. Today it encompasses the Indian states of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, the Union Territories of Delhi and Chandigarh, as well as the Pakistani states of Punjab and the North-West Frontier Province. While ecclesiastical and civil boundaries rarely coincided, ties among Christians within this area have been strong enough to make the north-west a workable and meaningful unit for studying the history of Christianity. This history will cover the entire north-west up to 1947.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Webster, John C.B

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- List of Tables and Maps

- Preface

- List of Abbreviations

- 1. Introduction

- The Study of Christianity in North-west India

- The Present Study

- The Nature and Use of the Missionary Archive

- 2. The Beginnings: 1800

- North-west India 21

- The Coming of Christianity

- Conclusions

- 3. The High Imperial Era: 1858

- The Imperial Ethos

- Education

- The Religious Challenge

- The Christian Community

- Conclusions

- 4. The North-west in Ferment: 1881

- The Changing Context

- The Urban Elites

- Urban Women

- The Rural Dalits

- The Christian Community

- Conclusions

- 5. Towards Independence and Partition: 1919

- The Christian Community

- Christians and Political Movements

- Nationalism and Missionary Raj

- Conclusions

- 6. Christianity in North-west India Since Independence

- Partition and Its Aftermath

- The Reorganization and Proliferation of Churches

- The Institutional Complex

- The Christian Community

- Conclusions

- 7. The North-west in the History of Christianity

- Glossary

- Bibliography

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

John C.B. Webster serves as a Trustee of Union Theological Seminary in New York. He retired as a Diaconal Worker of the Worldwide Ministries Division of the Presbyterian Church (USA) and his last assignment with them (1994-2001) was as a scholar and writer.