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Telugu Christians

A History
  • ISBN-13: 9781506469430
  • Publisher: 1517 MEDIA
    Imprint: FORTRESS PRESS
  • By James Elisha Taneti
  • Price: AUD $84.99
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 12/04/2022
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 140.00mm) 240 pages Weight: 318g
  • Categories: History of religion [HRAX]
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This volume narrates the history of Telugu Christians, a faith community located in the states of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, and Pondicherry in southern India. A social history of a faith community, this volume analyzes how social aspirations of the community, local worldviews, and historical contingencies shaped the beliefs and practices of Telugu Christians. It relates and interprets the history of Telugu Christians chronologically from the sixteenth century until the current times. The first two chapters of the book examine the earliest encounters between the Christian message that European missionaries introduced and the local Christians. Covering three centuries, this section highlights the appropriation of the Christian message among the caste converts. Later chapters analyze the impact of Dalit conversions and women's leadership on the social fabric and theological texture of Telugu Christianity in the nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries. The book ends with a consideration of three dominant movements in the second half of the twentieth century and the early twenty-first, namely the process of Sanskritization, the influences of Pentecostalism, and those of Holiness movements on the Telugu church. In conclusion, Taneti recaps how caste and empire shaped the faith and practices of Telugu Christians.
James Elisha Taneti is director of the Syngman Rhee Global Mission Center for Christian Education and assistant professor of World Christianity at Union Presbyterian Seminary. He has authored A History of Telugu Christianity: A Bibliography and Caste, Gender, and Christianity in Colonial India: Telugu Women in Mission.
1. Introduction 2. Beginnings of Telugu Christianity 3. Caste Converts and Christian Missionaries 4. Dalit Christians and Western Collaborators 5. Women in the Birthing of Telugu Christianity 6. Towards a Telugu Church 7. Bhakti in the Telugu Christianity 8. Pentecostals and Diversification of Telugu Christianity 9. Holiness Movements: Post Independence to the Present 10. Sin in the Camp: Caste and Telugu Christianity 11. Conclusion
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