TAILIEUCHUNG - Encyclopedia of World Cultures Volume III - South Asia - I

Bách khoa toàn thư nền nông nghiệp thế giới - Vùng Nam Á - Vần I | __Indian Christian 103 Bibliography Chaudhuri Nirad C. 1979 . Hinduism a Religion to Live By. New York Oxford University Press London Chatto Windus. Stutley Margaret and James Stutley 1977 . Harper s Dictionary of Hinduism Its Mythology Folklore Philosophy Literature and History. New York Harper Row. Indian Christian ETHNONYMS none Indian Christians are believers in the divinity of Jesus Christ. Despite the persisting idea in South Asia that Christianity is the white man s religion it has a massive following today in the subcontinent. Still it is very much a minority faith accounting for nearly 8 percent of the Sri Lankan population but less than 3 percent in each of the other South Asian countries. In 1991 India had an estimated 21 million Christians and the other South Asian countries together had another 3 million. The idea that Christianity was introduced by the colonial powers Roman Catholicism by the Portuguese and then Anglicanism by the English is not strictly true. Kerala and some other parts of the west coast had certainly been evangelized by Nestorian missionaries since the sixth century and many in south India believe that the apostle Thomas came to Tamil Nadu and was martyred and buried in what is now Madras city. These early religious connections were with Syria cf. Syrian Christians . The Portuguese brought Portuguese and Italian priests with them and in 1557 Goa their major Indian colony became an archbishopric. With the founding of the East India Company in 1600 the English introduced the Anglican faith and as time passed other Protestant sects appeared. The years 1850-1900 were the high point of Protestant mission activity in South Asia with ministers from America and virtually every country in Europe vying for converts especially among the Untouchables tribals and downtrodden slum dwellers. In some areas they were dramatically successful at gaining .

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