There are now more Christians in Africa and Asia than in the West. This book addresses particular aspects of cultural contact, with special reference to caste, conversion, and colonialism.

Chapter 1 Introduction: Dealing with Contested Definitions and Controversial Perspectives, ROBERT ERICFRYKENBERG; Chapter 2 Christians in India: An Historical Overview of Their Complex Origins, ROBERT ERICFRYKENBERG; Chapter 3 First European Missionaries on Sansdrit Grammar, IWONAMILEWSKA; Chapter 4 Country Priests, Catechists, and Schoolmasters as Culturall, ReligiouS, and Social Middlemen Context of the Tranquebar Mission, HEIKELIEBAU; Chapter 5 Tanjorey Tranquebar; and Halle: European Science and German Missionary Education in the Lives of Two Indian Intellectuals in the Early Nineteenth Century, INDIRA VISWANATHANPETERSON; Chapter 6 Christianity, Colonialism, and Hinduism in Kerala: Integration, Adaptation, or Confrontation?, CARSON PENELOPE; Chapter 7 Constructing "Hinduism":The Impact of the Protestant Missionary Movement on Hindu Self-Understanding, GEOFFREY A.ODDIE; Chapter 8 Receding from Antiquity: Hindu Responses to Science and Christianity on the Margins of Empirey 1800-1850, RICHARD FOXYOUNG; Chapter 9 "Pillar of a New Faith": Christianity in Late-Nineteenth-Century Punjab from the Perspective of a Convert from Islam, AVRIL A. POWELL; Chapter 10 Missionaries and Print Culture in Nineteenth-Century Assam: The Orunodoi Periodical of the American Baptist Mission, Marie Mageo Jeannette; Chapter 11 The Santals, Though Unable to Plan for Tomorrow, Should Be Converted by the Santals, CARRINMARINE, TAMBS-LYCHEMARINE; Chapter 12 Christian Missionaries and Orientalist Discourse: Illustrated by Materials on the Santals after 1855, PETER B.ANDERSEN, SUSANNEFOSS; Chapter 13 Glimpses of a Prominent Indian Christian Family of Tirunelveli and Madras, 1863-1906: Perspectives on Caste, Culture, and Conversi, E. M. JACKSON; Chapter 14 Social Mobilization among People Competing at the Bottom Level of Society: The Presence of Missions in Rural South India, ca. 1900-1950, GUNNELCEDERLÖF; Chapter 15 From Pentecostal Healing Evangelist to Kalki Avatar: The Remarkable Life of Paulaseer Lawrie, alias Shree Lahari Krishna (1921-1989)-A Contribution to the Understanding of New Religious Movements, MICHAEL BERGUNDER; Chapter 16 SIXTEEN Praising Baby Jesus in Iyecupiran Pillaittamil, PAULARICHMAN;