Christianity in South and Central Asia

This book achieves for me what some of the best research monographs fail to do; it offers new and deeper insights into Christianity in South and Central Asia in a highly accessible form...delightful reading. -- David Emmanuel Singh * International Journal of Asian Christianity *
[...] this book is currently one of the best-edited compendia on world Christianity. It achieves a remarkable uniformity of style, tone, and coverage across 38 chapters by 40 authors, with each chapter offering lively accounts of current trends. Christianity in South and Central Asia is an excellent offering in the Edinburgh Companions series. -- Joel A. Carpenter, Calvin University, Grand Rapids, MI, USA * Mission Studies 37 (2) *
Christianity in South and Central Asia represents public recognition of the unprecedented explosion of World Christianity during the past half century. Ambitious and wide-ranging essays by forty authors from varied backgrounds and disciplines explore the highly complex and multiple forms of local and regional Christianities that now exist within fourteen countries. Complicating this work further are Christianities within India itself which, like a gigantic elephant among smaller creatures, embraces more countries and cultures and complexities than all the other thirteen countries combined. Cross-cutting essentials of institutions and ideologies of least seven major historic traditions, as well as of manifold minor traditions found within these countries, are essays that address key themes as these pertain to each country – namely: caste, demography, diaspora, evangelism, faith, freedom, gender, identity, inter-faith relations, socio-political contexts, theology and worship. This truly remarkable collection should appeal to a broad readership concerned with contemporary affairs in our world. * Robert Eric Frykenberg, University of Wisconsin - Madison *