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dc.contributor.authorJoseph, Clara A.B.
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-08T11:00:53Z
dc.date.available2024-02-08T11:00:53Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/87580
dc.description.abstractBy 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.en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesRoutledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTM Regional / International studiesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRA Religion: generalen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography::RGL Regional geographyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRR Other religions and spiritual beliefsen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema 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 literatureen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRM Christianityen_US
dc.subject.otherThomas 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 Arrivalen_US
dc.titleChristianity in Indiaen_US
dc.title.alternativeThe Anti-Colonial Turnen_US
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.4324/9781351123860en_US
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bben_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781351123839en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9780367200947en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781351123846en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9780815357742en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9780367660338en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781351123860en_US
oapen.imprintRoutledgeen_US
oapen.pages189en_US


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