Pentecostals and Interreligious Conflict in India: Proselytization, Marginalization, and Anti-Christian Violence
Anti-Christian violence in India has increased dramatically since the late 1990s, and there are now, on average, several hundred attacks on Christians every year. In this violence, Pentecostals are disproportionately targeted. This article begins by providing the historical and political context for...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Equinox Publ.
[2017]
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PentecoStudies
Année: 2017, Volume: 16, Numéro: 1, Pages: 8-34 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Inde
/ Christianisme
/ Pentecôtisme
/ Interreligiosité
/ Conflit
/ Hindouisme
/ Nationalisme
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| RelBib Classification: | AX Dialogue interreligieux KBM Asie KDG Église libre KDH Sectes d’origine chrétienne ZB Sociologie ZC Politique en général |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Violence
anti-Christian
Nationalisme hindou
Hindu-Christian
Pentecostal
Evangelism
India
Hinduism
Christianity
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Volltext (Verlag) Volltext (doi) |
| Résumé: | Anti-Christian violence in India has increased dramatically since the late 1990s, and there are now, on average, several hundred attacks on Christians every year. In this violence, Pentecostals are disproportionately targeted. This article begins by providing the historical and political context for anti-Christian violence, and then seeks to account for the disproportionate targeting of Pentecostals. While there are certain obvious factors, such as the more assertive evangelizing of Pentecostals (and other Evangelicals) vis-à-vis mainstream Christian groups, the article explores and highlights several less obvious factors, and in particular the peculiar social, theological, ecclesiastical and liturgical aspects of Pentecostalism that make this form of Christianity particularly objectionable to Hindu nationalists, as well - importantly - as to many mainstream and upper-caste/upper-class Indian Christians. |
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| ISSN: | 1871-7691 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: PentecoStudies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/ptcs.31724 |