Missionary Christianity and Local Religion: American Evangelicalism in North India, 1836-1870

by Arun W Jones and Arun W. Jones

The first Christian communities were established among the population of Hindi- and Urdu-speaking North India during the middle of the nineteenth century. The evangelical North American Presbyterian and Methodist missionaries who arrived in what were considered the Hindu heartlands discovered a social and religious landscape far more diverse than expected. With its Hindu majority and significant Muslim minority, the region also proved home to reform...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 160258432X
• ISBN13: 9781602584327
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Baylor University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher