Religious Transformation in South Asia: The Meanings of Conversion in Colonial Punjab

by Christopher Harding

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In the last decades of the nineteenth century, urgent and unprecedented demands among oppressed peoples in colonial India drove what came to be called "mass conversion movements" towards a range of Christian denominations, launching a revolution in South Asia's two thousand-year Christian history.

For all the scale, drama, and lasting controversy of a movement that approached half a million members in Punjab alone by the end of the 1930s, much...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0199548226

ISBN13:9780199548224

Release Date:November 2008

Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA

Length:316 Pages

Weight:1.10 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 5.5" x 8.6"

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History Religion Religion & Spirituality

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