| Popis: |
Protestant missionaries and their zealous converts located themselves between Hindu and Muslim through religious debates. Their heated, public exchanges concerned the veracity of Sanskrit, Arabic, and Persian texts, but their attempts to discredit those texts—and the Hindus and Muslims who believed in them—rarely yielded the robust harvest of converts they hoped for. More often, they offended the religious feelings of others and elicited more organized forms of resistance. Indians eventually responded to missionaries with defensive reformulations of their faiths through printed texts, opinion pieces in local newspapers, and public debates. In the process, they imagined into being more collective notions of their religious identities. New “Protestantized” forms of Islam and Hinduism, many adopting the organizational and rhetorical strategies of missionaries, shaped an emerging climate of religious competition. |
