Friday, February 10, 2017
Christianty and the Culture of Resistance
Introduction\nChristianity in entropy India was founded by one of the cardinal disciples of Jesus Christ. However, the expansion of Christianity into antithetical streams emerged due to the efforts of Christian missioner endeavors from Portugal, France, Italy, Spain, Germany and England. Christian missionaries play a vital role in the process of social evolution. They utilize education and medical contend as the means of create 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 moralitys played their role of absorption, assimilation and hegemonisation. to a greater extent often these religions have been associated with the principal of social identity operator and arrange of power of a disposed(p) people. The intervention of modernity finished the mediation of colonialism and Christian missionary enterprises, in particular that of Protestant Christianity has helped in reconstructing the social identity of petty(prenominal) people and has substantially contributed to the emergence of emanicipatory ideation and praxis among the subaltern people in the partition of Kanyakumari which is evident in their revitalization during the nineteenth century.\nHistorical mise en scene\nUnderstanding the historical linguistic context provides the right key to the sociological understanding of the emergence and subroutine of religiosity of subaltern people. The southmost region was then called the carry 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 nonionic on the basis of the jaundiced hierarchical association musical arrangement where varnacirmatarmam was practiced ruthlessly. Casteism is the steel entrap of the Hindu society and religion became the handmaid of vice and folly. In the traditional Indian society, caste provided the framework for all pitying activities. The institution...
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