Tuesday, October 18, 2016
Christianty and the Culture of Resistance
Introduction\nChristianity in second India was founded by one of the xii disciples of Jesus Christ. However, the expansion of Christianity into contrary streams emerged due to the efforts of Christian missioner endeavors from Portugal, France, Italy, Spain, Germany and England. Christian missionaries contend a vital role in the process of social evolution. They apply education and medical do as the means of development contact with people. The missionaries in Tamil nadu in particular worked in the field of education, medicine and in the uplift of the society. Looking at Indian society, the dominant devotions played their role of absorption, assimilation and hegemonisation. more often these religions have been associated with the psyche of social personal identity and act upon of power of a condition people. The intervention of modernity by the mediation of colonialism and Christian missional enterprises, in particular that of Protestant Christianity has helped in recons tructing the social identity of junior-grade people and has advantageously contributed to the emergence of emanicipatory ideation and praxis among the subaltern people in the zone of Kanyakumari which is evident in their revitalization during the nineteenth century.\nHistorical scope\nUnderstanding the historical context of use provides the right key to the sociological understanding of the emergence and deed of religiosity of subaltern people. The southmost region was then called the aver of thiruvitankur or Travancore, ruled by the heirs of King Martanda varma, which was replaced by the British during 19th century.\nThe society at that time was rigidly form on the basis of the preferential hierarchical coterie musical arrangement where varnacirmatarmam was practiced ruthlessly. Casteism is the steel roll of the Hindu society and religion became the handmaid of vice and folly. In the traditional Indian society, caste provided the framework for all compassionate activiti es. The institution...
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