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Indian Christian Historiography from Below, from Above, and in Between - India and the Indianness of Christianity: Essays on Understanding—Historical, Theological, and Bibliographical—in Honor of Robert Eric Frykenberg. Edited by Richard Fox Young. Studies in the History of Christian Missions. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2009. xi + 283 pp. $45.00 paper. - A Social History of Christianity: North-west India Since 1800. By John C. B. Webster. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2007. xiv + 410 pp. $55.00 cloth.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 September 2011

Chad M. Bauman
Affiliation:
Butler University

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1 As he continues to do; his most recent monograph is Christianity in India: Beginnings to the Present (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008)Google Scholar.

2 On this, see Arun W. Jones, Review of Christianity in India: Beginnings to the Present, by Frykenberg, Robert E.. Church History 78, no. 4 (December 2009), 947–49Google Scholar.

3 Cox, Jeffrey, Imperial Fault Lines: Christianity and Colonial Power in India, 1818–1940 (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2002), 1113Google Scholar.

4 Ibid., 12.

5 Jeffrey Cox, Review of Christian Identity and Dalit Religion in Hindu India, 1868–1947, by Bauman, Chad M.. American Historical Review 115, no. 2 (2010), 527Google Scholar.

6 Young, Richard Fox, “World Christian Historiography, Theological ‘Enthusiasms,’ and the Writing of R. E. Frykenberg's Christianity in India,” Religion Compass 5, no. 2 (2011): 7179CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

7 See, for example, his dissertation on the Vaishnava Hindu theologian Ramanuja, published as The Theology of Ramanuja: An Essay in Interreligious Understanding (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1974)Google Scholar, and his Majesty and Meekness: A Comparative Study of Contrast and Harmony in the Concept of God (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1994)Google Scholar.

8 Cox, Imperial Fault Lines, 88.

9 Young, “World Christian Historiography,” 74.