The Indian Way of Christianity

ISBN-13: 9783848420056 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str.

Meledath Kurian Thomas

Opis

The work integrally covers the socio-religious history of the St. Thomas Christians. Decentralizing the generic concepts of the attributed elitism, the author uniquely brings out documentary evidences for where exactly the St. Thomas Christians of India could be placed in the hierarchy of Indian Caste System in the pre-colonial period. The work brings out the history unparalleled of a Christian community with hardly any Greco-Roman influence. It equally unveils how in the history an Indian community had raised its resistance against a religious and otherwise colonialism hence could this serve as a source book for the Indo-European research scholars. The religious revolts of the St. Thomas Christians against the imposed pyramidal power of Latin hierarchy had brought to light while detailed narration of cultural clashes had depicted.

O autorze

Dr. Meladath Kurian Thomas is a socio-religious historian of Kerala, India. He has transcribed, edited and published several of the eighteenth and nineteenth Century Malayalam Manuscripts. His proficiency in the area had resulted in paving light into certain unseen areas of the Malankara Nazranis, otherwise called St.Thomas Christians.