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Anti-Christian Violence In India, Chad Bauman
Anti-Christian Violence In India, Chad Bauman
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
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Pentecostals And Interreligious Conflict In India: Proselytization, Marginalization, And Anti-Christian Violence, Chad Bauman
Pentecostals And Interreligious Conflict In India: Proselytization, Marginalization, And Anti-Christian Violence, Chad Bauman
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Christian Responses To Discrimination And Violence In India And Sri Lanka: Avoidance, Advocacy, And Interfaith Engagement, Chad Bauman
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The Violence Of Conversion: Proselytization And Interreligious Controversy In The Work Of Swami Dayananda Saraswati, Chad Bauman
The Violence Of Conversion: Proselytization And Interreligious Controversy In The Work Of Swami Dayananda Saraswati, Chad Bauman
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
Critics of Christianity in India have frequently accused Christianity of being a predatory, imperialistic religion with absolutist tendencies, and have framed Christian evangelism as an aggressive, uncouth act. More recently, however, and in an idiom that resonates with many contemporary Indians, Swami Dayananda Saraswati (1930-) has made the more controversial claim that the attempt to convert another person is itself an act of violence. In three parts, the paper 1) describes Dayananda’s claims, while bringing them into conversation with the arguments of earlier critics of Christianity (e.g., Mahatma Gandhi, Sita Ram Goel, Ashok Chowgule, Arun Shourie), 2) analyzes and critique …
The Inter-Religious Riot As A Cultural System: Globalization, Geertz, And Hindu-Christian Conflict, Chad Bauman
The Inter-Religious Riot As A Cultural System: Globalization, Geertz, And Hindu-Christian Conflict, Chad Bauman
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
An analysis of Hindu-Christian violence, through the lens of Clifford Geertz's "Religion as a Cultural System."