What is it about?
This article explores why "westernization" of Indian and African converts was not urged by the missionaries, but actually voluntarily embraced by Indian Christians in British India.
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Why is it important?
Many people assume that western culture was forced upon Asians and Africans by missionaries.
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With intense globalization occurring, it is necessary to understand why people pick and choose certain aspects of foreign cultures for themselves. This has happened throughout history.
Arun Jones
Emory University
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This page is a summary of: Indian Christians and the Appropriation of Western Civilisation in the Nineteenth Century, Studies in World Christianity, April 2017, Edinburgh University Press,
DOI: 10.3366/swc.2017.0166.
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