Chad M. Bauman

Pentecostals, Proselytization, and Anti-Christian Violence in Contemporary India

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP US
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 392g
• ISBN-13: 9780190202101
• ISBN-10: 0190202106
• Artikelnr.: 47864206

Autorenporträt

Chad M. Bauman is Associate Professor of Religion at Butler University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgements
* Abbreviations
* Map
* Introduction
* 1. Who are India's Pentecostals?: History, Definitions, Deliberations
* 2. Pentecostalism in the Context of Indian History and Politics
* 3. Where the Spirit (of Violence) Leads: The Disproportionate
Targeting of Indian Pentecostals
* 4. Force, Fraud, and Inducement?: Recuperative Conversions and the
Growth of Indian Christianity
* 5. Missions and the Pentecostalization of Indian Christianity
* Conclusion
* Works Cited