Wives, Widows, and Concubines

Wives, Widows, and Concubines
Author: Mytheli Sreenivas
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2008
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0253351189

Debates about family, property, and nation in Tamil India

Mission and Tamil Society

Mission and Tamil Society
Author: Henriette Bugge
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2020-07-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000153460

Looks to provide an analysis of religion as a dynamic factor in Indian society. Not only is the ritual, economic and power status of the missionaries examined but also such effects on their converts as social status and mobility.

Sharing Jesus with Hindus

Sharing Jesus with Hindus
Author: Sam George
Publisher: William Carey Publishing
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2024-07-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1645085902

Building Authentic Relationships with Hindus Indians make up the world’s largest diaspora community, and most of them are Hindus of diverse backgrounds, languages, and cultures. Millions of Hindus have migrated abroad in recent decades and are well-settled in different countries while many more are expected to be dispersed far and wide in the coming years. Many of them are highly educated and skilled, professionally successful, culturally adaptive, and very religious in their outlook. Sharing Jesus with Hindus is the collective wisdom of many seasoned ministry leaders and practitioners about how to minister effectively to contemporary global Hindus. The contributors are situated in different parts of the world, and some come from Hindu backgrounds themselves. Emerging from an international conference on mission to and among Hindus worldwide, this book provides practical ministry strategies and scholarly reflections drawn from decades of insight. The authors have experience in diasporic living and ministering to Hindus in diverse contexts. Learn how to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with your new neighbors from the Indian subcontinent. Avoid common mistakes and be an effective Christian witness to Hindus globally. Here is an essential resource in the toolkit of every church and Christian ministry worldwide.

Pathways to Nationalism

Pathways to Nationalism
Author: S. Ganeshram
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2016-09-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 135199736X

This book examines the socio-economic factors in the rise and development of nationalism in the Tamil-speaking region of the Madras Presidency in India between 1858 and 1918. It analyses the dynamic interaction between socio-economic conditions and nationalism in Tamil Nadu by applying both historical methods of documentary analysis and a sociological perspective. The volume looks at the advent of Western education and the role of Christian missionaries, the growth of the local press, socio-religious reform movements, decline of indigenous industries and the land revenue policies of the colonial government to arrive at a comprehensive portrait of the rise of nationalism in the Madras Presidency. The volume is invaluable for scholars of colonial history and the Indian freedom movement in southern India.

Refugees and the Transformation of Societies

Refugees and the Transformation of Societies
Author: Philomena Essed
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2004
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781571818669

This series reflects the multidisciplinary nature of the field and includes within its scope international law, anthropology, medicine, geopolitics, social psychology and economics.

Religious Controversy in British India

Religious Controversy in British India
Author: Kenneth W. Jones
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 310
Release: 1992-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780791408278

This book opens the doors to a social and cultural sphere beyond the limited world of the English-speaking elite and provides the basis for an understanding of religious controversy and internal reform. It explores the dynamics of religious interaction and conflict that points toward later developments of communalism and religious separatism still plaguing the subcontinent. Religious Controversy in British India reveals a world expressed in South Asian dialects that has been closed to many scholars and students of the subcontinent. During the nineteenth century polemical religious literature and those who wrote it mobilized groups and led them back to the "fundamentals." Sacred texts supporting movements were translated and made available in inexpensive editions. Even texts from the well established oral tradition were put into print. This process was often initiated in response to Christian missionary activity, a response that ultimately expanded to include other religions. In this book, scholars examine the writings of Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs responsible for significant changes within different communities and for a heightened sense of boundary-defining identity.

The Emerald International Handbook of Feminist Perspectives on Women’s Acts of Violence

The Emerald International Handbook of Feminist Perspectives on Women’s Acts of Violence
Author: Stacy Banwell
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 551
Release: 2023-08-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1803822570

Grounded in feminist scholarship, this book upends normative accounts of femme fatale violence to focus beyond the misogyny and the sensationalism and unearth the motivation behind women's roles in homicide, terrorism, combat, and even nationalist movements.