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oapen-20.500.12657-875802024-03-28T14:03:15Z 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::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 thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography::RGL Regional geography thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRR Other religions and spiritual beliefs 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 thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRM Christianity 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. 2024-02-08T11:00:53Z 2024-02-08T11:00:53Z 2019 book 9781351123839 9780367200947 9781351123846 9780815357742 9780367660338 9781351123860 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/87580 eng Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781351123853.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781351123860 10.4324/9781351123860 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb 9781351123839 9780367200947 9781351123846 9780815357742 9780367660338 9781351123860 Routledge 189 open access
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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.
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