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008			170925s2018 nyu b 001 0 eng
010			_a 2017042641
020			_a9781108416122 (hardback : alk. paper)
037			_cPurchased _nUBSPD,Ernakulam
041			_aEnglish
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082	0	0	_a248.0954 _bSAR/PE
100	1		_aSarbeswar Sahoo
245	1	0	_aPENTECOSTALISM AND POLITICS OF CONVERSION IN INDIA / _cSarbeswar Sahoo.
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260			_aNew York _bCambridge University Press _c2018/01/01
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500			_aThis book studies the politics of Pentecostal conversion and anti-Christian violence in India. It asks: why has India been experiencing increasing incidents of anti-Christian violence since the 1990s? Why are the Bhil Adivasis increasingly converting to Pentecostalism? And, what are the implications of conversion for religion within indigenous communities on the one hand and broader issues of secularism, religious freedom and democratic rights on the other? Drawing on extended ethnographic fieldwork amongst the Bhils of Northern India since 2006, this book asserts that ideological incompatibility and antagonism between Christian missionaries and Hindu nationalists provide only a partial explanation for anti-Christian violence in India. It unravels the complex interactions between different actors/ agents in the production of anti-Christian violence and provides detailed ethnographic narratives on Pentecostal conversion, Hindu nationalist politics and anti-Christian violence in the largest state of India that has hitherto been dominated by upper caste Rajput Hindu(tva) ideology.
650		0	_a Christian experience, practice, life, Pentecostalism Movement In India
650		0	_aConversion
650		0	_aPentecostals
650		0	_aChristians
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504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"Studies the politics of Pentecostal conversion and anti-Christian violence in India and answers the timely and relevant questions of why India is experiencing increasing incidents of anti-Christian violence since the 1990s"--
650		0	_zIndia.
650		0	_xPentecostal churches.
650		0	_xViolence against _zIndia.
650		0	_xViolence against _zIndia.
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