Cultural Encounters in India

ISBN-13: 9781032652863 / Miękka / 2024 / 566 str.

Heike Liebau

Opis

The book is an English translation of an award winning German book. The history of social and religious encounter  in 18th century South  India is narrated through fascinating biographies and day to day lives of  Indian workers in the Tranquebar  Mission (1706-1845). The book challenges the notion that Christianity in colonia

Spis treści

Introduction 1. History of the Tranquebar Mission 2. Local Mission Workers 3. The Hierarchical Structure of the Mission Organization 4. Dialogue and Conflict 5. The Role of Local Mission Employees in Education 6. Women in the Tranquebar Mission 7. Concluding Observations: Indian Mission Employees and European-Indian Cultural Contact.

Biographies of South Indian Country Pastors

O autorze

Heike Liebau is Senior Research Fellow at the Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) in Berlin. Her research interest lies in the history of cultural encounters, biographical studies and questions of knowledge production. She is the co-editor of Halle and the Beginning of Protestant Christianity in India (with Y. Vincent Kumaradoss and Andreas Gross), Halle 2006; and of The World in World Wars: Experiences, Perceptions and Perspectives from Africa and Asia (with Katrin  Bromber, Katharina Lange, Dyala Hamzah, Ravi Ahuja), Leiden, Boston 2010.