Christian missionaries
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Why India will not lose her soul to missionaries
X.T.M argues that India will not lose its Hindu soul to missionaries, because societies are shaped by elites, not headcount, and India’s elite is not converting. He starts from a…
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Pakistan, a young state but an old nation
The founder reflects on moderation and the commentariat, on conversion and missionaries from a Bahá’í viewpoint, and on why he thinks South Asian borders will hold. He argues Pakistan is…
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Browncast: Vishal Ganesan; The Hindu Case Against Hinduism?
Hosts Amey and Dr Omar Ali talk with lawyer Vishal Ganesan about his essay on Frontier Dharma and what being Hindu means in the diaspora. He argues that mainstream media…
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Indians are just as stupid as Americans
A short, irritated reply to a tweet accusing Razib Khan of hating white Christian saviours, saying he avoids the word ‘secular’ because of what Indians take it to mean.
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Do you want to join the Caste of the Europeans?
The poster types out excerpts from Owen Chadwick’s The Reformation on a Portuguese Jesuit in Madurai who let converts keep Hindu customs and respected caste, and says it shows how…
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Why is India allowing foreign missionaries?
Asking why India lets foreign missionaries into the Andamans after the reported killing of John Allen Chau, the author argues contact has been dangerous for native peoples and worries about…
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Brown Missionaries and the Anglospheric Hegemony
Prompted by brown missionaries in Cambridge, X.T.M argues that religions grow tied to empire and race, and speculates that historians will call 1837 to 2016 an era of Anglospheric hegemony,…
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Shady Missionaries
A reader’s email, posted without comment, calls the Missionaries of Charity shady, citing a Ranchi baby-selling controversy, and asks for a post on how the Vatican operates in India.
