Author
Jeffrey Cox
Book Format
Hardback
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Published
April 2002
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A history of Christian missionary encounters with non-Christians in a part of the world where there were no Christians at all until the advent of British imperial rule in the early-19th century. As British and American missionaries spread out from Delhi into the heartland of Punjab, their preconceived ideas about Hinduism and Islam broke down rapidly as they established institutions requiring the close co-operation of Indians. Two-thirds of the foreign missionaries who entered the Punjab were women, and issues of gender as well as race were central dilemmas in a cultural encounter that featured numerous irresolvable conflicts. The missionaries' commitment to Christian universalism clashed with the visible realities of their imperial privileges. Although determined to build multiracial institutions based on spiritual equality, missionaries were the beneficiaries of an imperial racial hierarchy. Their social encounters with Indians were exceedingly complex, involving intimacy and affection as well as affronts and betrayals.Missionaries were compelled to react to circumstances not of their own making, and were forced to negotiate and compromise with Indian Christians, government officials, Indian critics of the missionary movement, and the many non-Christian students, patients and staff at large and influential missionary schools, colleges and hospitals. In villages, university-educated clergymen who had hoped to convert the Hindu and Muslim elite found themselves in the surprising position of advocating the rights of stigmatized and oppressed rural labourers. The history of elite institution-building took surprising turns during the rise of the national movement, as missionaries struggled with the conflict between their own transparent entanglement with imperialism and their attempts to foster new forms of indigenous Christianity that would outlive British imperial rule.
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Author
Jeffrey Cox
Book Format
Hardback
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Published
April 2002
Weight
641g
Page Count
384
Dimensions
157 x 248 x 27 mm
ISBN
9780804743181
ISBN-10
0804743185
Eden Code
1159592
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Author/Creator: Jeffrey Cox
ISBN: 9780804743181
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date: April 2002
Weight: 641g
Dimensions: 157 x 248 x 27 mm
Eden Code: 1159592
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