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Article: Some seek Indian way to be Christian.
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- June 16, 2000
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The Catholic church in India has practiced a Western mode of worship and theology because of its colonial origin (except in the state of Kerala in Southern India, where the Syrian mode of worship has prevailed). But from the 19th century to the present day, there has been a growing chorus of voices calling for a more Indian expression of the church's truths and beliefs, in what has now come to be popularly called "inculturation."
In Christian history in India, there have been leading personalities such as Brahmabandhab Upadhyaya and Narayan Vaman Tilak, Sadhu Sundar Singh and Paul Sudhakar, who all tried to find a synthesis between the religion to which they were ...