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Butler University Digital Commons Butler University Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS College of Liberal Arts Sciences Christianity and Hinduism An Annotated Bibliography Chad M Bauman Butler University cbauman butler edu Arun Jones Brian Pennington Joseph Prabhakar Dayam Michelie Voss Roberts Follow this and additional works at http digitalcommons butler edu facschpapers Part of the Religion Commons Recommended Citation Bauman Chad M Jones Arun Pennington Brian Prabhakar Dayam Joseph and Voss Roberts Michelie Christianity and Hinduism An Annotated Bibliography - Available at http digitalcommons butler edu facschpapers This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the College of Liberal Arts Sciences at Digital Commons Butler University It has been accepted for inclusion in Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons Butler University For more information please contact fgaede butler edu CHinduism and Christianity Chad Bauman Arun Jones Brian Pennington Joseph Prabhakar Dayam Michelle Voss Roberts Introduction Christian communities have existed in India since at least the th century CE the likely result of relatively well-established trade connections between India and the Near East in the early centuries of the Common Era While Christians maintained a lively and well-documented existence in the centuries after that particularly in southern India the size of the Christian population as well as its geographical spread began to increase dramatically after the arrival of European traders and missionaries in the late th century European contact with India through trade and then later colonization led to greater European interest in Indian cultures and religions While for some that interest was scholarly and dispassionate for others it grew out of the evangelical impulse that is the desire to promote Christianity and ??convert the heathen ? That said some of the most useful ethnographic data and analyses on Indian culture and religion in this era of Indo-European interaction comes from missionary ?gures many of whom took at least a quasi-scholarly interest in the people with whom they interacted most of whom documented religio-cultural beliefs practices and events that passed away or were signi ?cantly altered in the centuries that followed The relationship between Christian missionaries and the study of India Indian Christianity is therefore important to keep in mind because of the way it has complicated and to some degree still does academic work on the topic In the bibliography that follows readers will discover resources about Indian Christianity and its relationship to Indian culture and religion written both from an assumed scholarly distance and from a more committed stance e g by foreign missionaries and or Indian Christians writing self-consciously as Christians or by Hindus writing appreciatively of or critically against Christianity Nevertheless while the resources listed here emerge from a range of disciplines ??history ethnography sociology cultural studies missiology and theology ??one theme that pervades them all is how India ? s Christians have interacted or should interact with Hinduism and India ? s other religious and cultural traditions Journals While many journals occasionally include articles of