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Article: Christians, Cultural Interactions, and India's Religious Traditions.(Book Review)
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- December 1, 2004
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Christians, Cultural Interactions, and India's Religious Traditions. Edited by Judith M. Brown and Robert Eric Frykenberg. Studies in the History of Christian Missions. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2002. x + 241 pp. $35.00 paper.
This collection of essays describes interactions between Christians and adherents of India's diverse religious traditions, from the nineteenth century on. It proceeds from a Pew sponsored consultation at Oxford in September 1999. In her introduction, Judith Brown explains that the essays constitute neither "Church history" nor "missions history." Rather, they present different modes of "Christian believing, belonging and practice" ...