India and the Indianness of Christianity
Richard Fox YoungPaperback 2009-10-01
Honoring historian Robert Eric Frykenberg, the essays in this collection avoid the pitfall of Eurocentric, "top down" historiographies and instead adopt and adapt Frykenberg's own Indocentric, "bottom up" approach, thus accentuating indigenous agency in the emergence of Christianity as an Indian religion. This book includes essays based on rare archival info.?
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Honoring historian Robert Eric Frykenberg, the essays in this collection avoid the pitfall of Eurocentric, top down historiographies and instead adopt and adapt Frykenbergs own Indocentric, bottom up approach, thus accentuating indigenous agency in the emergence of Christianity as an Indian religion. / Contributors: Peter B. Andersen, Michael Bergunder, Judith M. Brown, John B. Carman, Gunnel Cederlf, Daniel Jeyaraj, Chandra Mallampalli, Geoffrey A. Oddie, Avril A. Powell, Rosemary Seton, Wilbert R. Shenk, Martha Lund Smalley, Brian Stanley, Richard Fox Young.
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Honoring historian Robert Eric Frykenberg, the essays in this collection avoid the pitfall of Eurocentric, "top down" historiographies and instead adopt and adapt Frykenberg's own Indocentric, "bottom up" approach, thus accentuating indigenous agency in the emergence of Christianity as an Indian religion. This book includes essays based on rare archival info.?
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Honoring historian Robert Eric Frykenberg, the essays in this collection avoid the pitfall of Eurocentric, top down historiographies and instead adopt and adapt Frykenbergs own Indocentric, bottom up approach, thus accentuating indigenous agency in the emergence of Christianity as an Indian religion. / Contributors: Peter B. Andersen, Michael Bergunder, Judith M. Brown, John B. Carman, Gunnel Cederlf, Daniel Jeyaraj, Chandra Mallampalli, Geoffrey A. Oddie, Avril A. Powell, Rosemary Seton, Wilbert R. Shenk, Martha Lund Smalley, Brian Stanley, Richard Fox Young.