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Scholarship on the Jesuit missionaries in Indian has recently become a less occult and partisan historiographical field. It is no more an apologetic project, nor a spiteful critique popular among the 19th century Protestant scholars and missionaries. Why studying Jesuit sources? Because they are a window into early modern and modern Indian and global history. When analyzed criically, these sources provide a different perspective on various actors, events and ...
This book is a pioneering wok, showcasting Christian themes in Indian art from the beginnings of Christianity in India till today. The authors have, supplemented this with one chapter on architecture, particularly that of church buildings, and one on popular art, including stamps. Around 1100 rare coloured illustrations make this publication a unique reference book.
Musical spring presents select Christian music exponents in Tamilnadu. There are forty-two of them in this list - music composers, singers and musicologists. They are all concerned with liturgical music in Carnatic style. This volume is a much-needed documentation giving some details about these musicians in an intercultural perspective. The tradition of sacred music is common to many cultures. Here the Indian tradition and the Christian music tradition in the ...