Ecumenical Church and Religious Conversion

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

منو

" Ecumenical Church and Religious Conversion "
Lalsangkima Pachuau

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1077054
Doc. No	:	LA120683
Call No	:	‭10.1163/157338301X00126‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Lalsangkima Pachuau
Title & Author	:	Ecumenical Church and Religious Conversion [Article]\ Lalsangkima Pachuau
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Mission Studies
Date	:	2001
Volume/ Issue Number	:	18/1
Page No	:	181–201
Abstract	:	"In this article, Lalsangkima Pachuau responds to contemporary accusations in India that Christian missionaries are forcing conversions, and thereby turning Indians away from their culture. While the Indian Constitution guarantees the right to "propagate" religion, and therefore to accept the movement from one religion (e.g. Hinduism) to another (e.g. Christianity), what is important to understand that "conversion" is not primarily a call to move from one religion to another--much less to abandon one's culture--but is a movement away from self and the "world" toward God. Conversion understood as "changing religions" is much more the product of seventeenth and eighteenth century evangelicalism than it is a true understanding of the Bible. Mission is always about conversion, and entails the invitation to enter the Christian community; such invitation, however, should always be distinguished from a proselytism that only focuses on a change of religious allegiance."
Descriptor	:	General
Descriptor	:	History of Religion
Descriptor	:	Religion Society
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	Social Sciences
Descriptor	:	Theology and World Christianity
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/157338301X00126‬