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Author Bauman, Chad M.

Title Pentecostals, proselytization, and anti-Christian violence in contemporary India / Chad M. Bauman
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]
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Contents Who are India's pentecostals? : history, definitions, deliberations -- Pentecostalism in the context of Indian history and politics -- Where the spirit (of violence) leads : the disproportionate -- Targeting of Indian Pentecostals -- Force, fraud, and inducement? : recuperative conversions -- And the growth of Indian Christianity -- Missions and the Pentecostalization of Indian Christianity
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO; viewed on December 19, 2014)
Subject Pentecostalism -- India -- History
Pentecostals -- Violence against -- India -- History
Christians -- Violence against -- India -- History
RELIGION -- Christianity -- History.
Christians -- Violence against
Pentecostalism
SUBJECT India -- Church history
Subject India
Genre/Form Church history
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780190202118
0190202114