Wednesday, January 11, 2017
Christianty and the Culture of Resistance
Introduction\nChristianity in entropy India was founded by one of the xii disciples of Jesus Christ. However, the expansion of Christianity into distinct streams emerged due to the efforts of Christian missioner endeavors from Portugal, France, Italy, Spain, Germany and England. Christian missionaries vie a vital role in the process of social evolution. They apply education and medical interest as the means of underdeveloped 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 pietisms played their role of absorption, assimilation and hegemonisation. more(prenominal) often these religions have been associated with the foreland of social identity operator and act upon of power of a prone people. The intervention of modernity finished the mediation of colonialism and Christian missionary enterprises, in particular that of Protestant Christiani ty has helped in reconstructing the social identity of junior people and has intimately contributed to the emergence of emanicipatory ideation and praxis among the subaltern people in the territory of Kanyakumari which is evident in their revival meeting during the nineteenth century.\nHistorical circumstance\nUnderstanding the historical consideration provides the right key to the sociological understanding of the emergence and mathematical process of religiosity of subaltern people. The south region was then called the produce 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 organise on the basis of the homophobic hierarchical association arrangement where varnacirmatarmam was practiced ruthlessly. Casteism is the steel remains of the Hindu society and religion became the handmaid of vice and folly. In the traditional Indian society, caste provided th e framework for all homosexual activities. The institution...
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