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1 online resource (226 pages) |
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Cover; Pentecostalismand Politics of Conversion in India; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; PREFACE; ABBREVIATIONS; 1. INTRODUCTION: Conversion and the Shifting Discourse of Violence; Introduction and the argument; Debates on religious conversion; Methodology and a note on fieldwork; Outline of chapters; 2. SPREADING LIKE FIRE: The Growth of Pentecostalism among Tribals; What is Pentecostalism?; History of Pentecostalism; Pentecostalism spreads to/in Rajasthan; Native Missionary Movement; Emphasis on Spirit worship; Divine healings and miracles; Strict rules and belief system |
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Holistic development ministryThe CCFM and mission 'development'; Conversion and the quota system; Emergence of a new identity; Conclusion; 3. TAKING REFUGE IN CHRIST: Four Narratives on Religious Conversion; Studies on conversion; Purity of the nation: The Hindu nationalist narrative; Faith and change: The Christian missionary narrative; Modernity and the moral economy of miracles: The converts' narrative; A threat to community solidarity: The (Hindu) adivasi narrative; Conclusion; 4. BECOMING BELIEVERS: Adivasi Women and the Pentecostal Church; Survey of the literature |
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Gender equality and women empowermentConversion experience; Socio-economic well-being; Women and Pentecostalism in India; The conversion experience; Experiences of miracle healings; Changes in male-female relations; Socio-economic well-being; Conclusion; 5. SEEN AS THE ALIEN: Hindutva Politics and Anti-Christian Violence; A chronicle of anti-Christian violence; The political economy of tribal society; Christianity, conversion and the tribals; Religious violence and the politics of Hindu nationalism; The ideology of Hindu nationalism; Religious conversion and postcolonial anxiety |
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The decline of the Congress and the rise of the BJPTribal encounters with Hindu nationalism; Development, mobilisation and violence; Conclusion; 6. CONCLUSION: Beyond the Competing Projects of Conversion; ENDNOTES; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Spreading Like Fire; Chapter 3: Taking Refuge in Christ; Chapter 4: Becoming Believers; Chapter 5: Seen as the Alien; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX |
| Summary |
This book studies the politics of Pentecostal conversion and anti-Christian violence in India. It asks: why has India been experiencing increasing incidents of anti-Christian violence since the 1990s? Why are the Bhil Adivasis increasingly converting to Pentecostalism? And, what are the implications of conversion for religion within indigenous communities on the one hand and broader issues of secularism, religious freedom and democratic rights on the other? Drawing on extended ethnographic fieldwork amongst the Bhils of Northern India since 2006, this book asserts that ideological incompatibility and antagonism between Christian missionaries and Hindu nationalists provide only a partial explanation for anti-Christian violence in India. It unravels the complex interactions between different actors/ agents in the production of anti-Christian violence and provides detailed ethnographic narratives on Pentecostal conversion, Hindu nationalist politics and anti-Christian violence in the largest state of India that has hitherto been dominated by upper caste Rajput Hindu(tva) ideology |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 10, 2018) |
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Print version record |
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Pentecostalism -- India
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Conversion -- Pentecostal churches.
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Pentecostals -- Violence against -- India
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Christians -- Violence against -- India
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RELIGION -- Christian Life -- General.
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Conversion -- Pentecostal churches
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Christians -- Violence against
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Pentecostalism
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India
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781108553551 |
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1108553559 |
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9781108235877 |
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1108235875 |
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