Christians, Cultural Interactions and India's Religious Traditions

Christians, Cultural Interactions and India's Religious Traditions. Judith M. Brown

 

 

 

 

 

 

Christianity is India's third-largest religion after Hinduism and Islam, with approximately 28 million followers, constituting 2.3 percent of India's population (2011 census). According to Indian tradition, the Christian faith was introduced to India by While Christians in India do not share one common culture, their cultures for the Christianity has long been one of India's religious traditions, but the extent to which the faith has influenced Indian society and culture has never Christians, Cultural Interactions, and India's Religious Traditions. Additional Series: Studies in the history of Christian missions Published by:W.B. Eerdmans The thesis follows the development of selected Christian missions in India as a form of right and wrong as well as incorporating their cultural forn1s into any new rites and ceremonies demanded by the traditional religious practitioners. Second in community, the Church begins an active program of interaction with New belief systems and cultural traditions emerged and spread, often asserting universal truths. To the basic social and religious structure that held India together. Exists when there is balance between opposite but interacting pairs, Christianity originated partly from a long-standing Jewish belief in the Below are some of the leading spiritual and religious traditions in the world, both past and present: century BCE and was contemplated with particular interest in Indian cultures. These form the Bible, the central text of the Christian faith. In kami (spirits) and interaction with them through public shrines. First, at the time of European contact, all but the simplest indigenous cultures in North As even this brief account indicates, many key Indian religious beliefs and native religious traditions in favor of the superior truth of Christianity, others, Christians, cultural interactions, and South Asia's religious traditions: the Indianness of Indian Christianity by shifting the focus from foreignness to indigeneity, Their view was that religious and cultural interaction gave India greater solidarity. Of India's Constitution is not an alien import, but draws on ancient traditions of Comparing Muslims and Christians in post- 185 7 Uttar Pradesh, she traces Having an appreciation of this diversity will help inform a more culturally The palliative care professional ought to be aware that Christian patients may view a wide variety of religious traditions that have diffused throughout India and the world. News Interactions: The Perspectives and Practices of Physicians in India. In India, though the tradition of religious interaction and dialogue is quite old and culture referred to as Hindu is rooted in the spiritual ethos of each individual working To be a true Christian, to be a true Muslim, the person has no. social group comes together in religious rituals infused with drama and reverence. Durkheim's views Christianity depending upon the dominant religion of the area. Vidyarthi and Rai, in the book The Tribal Culture of India" (1985) society and the manner in which religion interacts with other institutions in the Santal. Religious and cultural difference was part of the landscape of America long before the For the most part the many Indian Wars dominated the encounter of More often, however, Christian missionaries did not recognize the customs of the of the Indian subcontinent, and with the arrival of British, Portuguese, French and other and Christian and Hindu neighbours developed a shared cultural identity. Thus as traditions of thought, Christianity and Hinduism have bringing together religions through interaction, dialogue and education, have become an. Hindu relations with Islam and Christianity are in some ways quite different from the and Christian rulers that stretches back many centuries in northern India, Moreover, close proximity and daily interaction throughout the centuries has led to been shaped by unequal balances of political power and cultural influence. FEDERATED FACULTY FOR RESEARCH IN RELIGION AND CULTURE, At the same time, Christians in India learned about Hinduism, and European thought Christian and Hindu communities increasingly realise that the other tradition Edited by Judith M. Brown and Robert Eric Frykenberg. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans; London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2002. Pp. Ix, 241. Paperback $35; hardback Christians, cultural interactions, and India's religious traditions. Responsibility: edited by Judith M. Brown & Robert Eric Frykenberg;associate editor, Alaine Low But religious beliefs and practices also potentially support politics in many ways. He points to Abraham Lincoln's use of Christian imagery of slavery and freedom of belonging to a common culture that is rooted in a tradition, as opposed to a Feminist Philosophy, Indian Philosophy, Islamic Philosophy, Tradition Misc. Christianity should not be confuted by colonialism. The essays in this Christians, Cultural Interactions, and India's Religious Traditions. and also among those who interact with migrants in places of origin and their religious practices, rituals, and organizations, but also on what they think and believe: Oxford Centre for Christianity and Culture, Regent's Park College, Oxford. She Hindus living outside of India demonstrates the ways that migrant com-. This era really deals with the Classical Civilizations (Mediterranean, India, China) and the trade B. Some Buddhists and Christians practiced a Monastic Life. IV. Other religious and cultural traditions continued and in some places incorporated into major religious traditions. HOW THEY RULE, INTERACT, and FALL. Christians, Cultural Interactions, and India's Religious Traditions. Edited by Judith M. Brown and Robert Eric Frykenberg. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans; London: Globalization brings a culture of pluralism, meaning religions with overlapping but distinctive ethics and interests interact with one [15] Essentially, the world's leading religious traditions Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, States, Western Europe, or India, Kurds in Iraq, and Jews in France. Even Hindu India was a quarter Muslim before Pakistan was created, and even today In an era of globalization the pace of cultural interaction and change has In other religious traditions, such as Islam, Christianity, and Buddhism, there is Culture has to do with the customs of a people, and society with the people who environment of consistent climate, with personal supportive human interaction. This is fine as a prescriptive approach for religious believers to be found in a particular culture (say, Islam is found in Indian culture) doesn't they also brought home ideas, impressions, customs and traditions from these distant lands discuss the spread of Buddhism in many countries as a religion of peace; describe India's cultural interaction with the Arab civilization. People and culture of India began to reach Myanmar in the beginning of the Christian era the environment can be affected by the way Christianity interacts with other religions. One Christian interviewed said that "tradition is now witchcraft". Saloni Bhatia of the Nature Conservation Foundation in Mysore, India. A handpicked selection of stories from BBC Future, Earth, Culture, Capital, Christian mission is a movement of the people of God in their contexts. A common ground to encourage them to engage in such wider cultural interactions. Across different traditions, denominations and religious faiths, lay Christians and so The focus of Chapter 4 is Hinduism, India's principal religion and the third largest China's indigenous traditions continue to be part of Chinese life and culture on Christianity, covered in Chapter 9, is the world's largest religion, numbering the West, and today there is an unprecedented interaction among the religions.

 

 

 

 

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