الإنجليزية 1446
Gods Guns & Missionaries
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ISBN رقم:
9780670093656
الناشر:
Penguin Random House India
الصفحات:
664
الوزن:
1016 g
أبعاد المنتج:
23٫4 x 15٫3 x 3٫5 cm
غلاف الكتاب:
غلاف کرتونی
Thema:
- Hinduism
When European missionaries first arrived in India in the sixteenth century, they entered a world both fascinating and bewildering. Hinduism, as they saw it, was a pagan mess: the worship of devils and monsters by a people who burned women alive, performed outlandish rites and fed children to crocodiles. But soon it became clear that Hindu ‘idolatry’ was far more complex than white men’s stereotypes allowed, and Hindus had little desire to convert. But then, European power began to grow in India, and under colonial rule, missionaries assumed a forbidding appearance.
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