01841nam a2200241Ia 4500 CTU_174258 210402s9999 xx 000 0 und d 77 954.8 B359 Bayly, Susan Saints, goddesses, and kings : Muslims and Christians in South Indian Society, 1700-1900 Susan Bayly Cambridge [England],New York Cambridge University Press 1989 South India is often portrayed as a land of Hindu orthodoxy, yet in fact three great "world religions" have interacted in the region over many centuries. This book uses a powerful combination of oral, literary, and architectural evidence to investigate the social and religious world of those large and influential groups of South Indians who came to identify themselves as Christians and Muslims, while retaining powerful links with the religion and culture of the wider society. The author shows how Christianity and Islam spread along the military and agricultural frontiers of southern India, and how certain beliefs and practices derived local force from an ambiguous relationship with the worship of existing Hindu goddesses. The book illuminates not only the meaning and history of religious conversion and the nature of community, but wider processes of social and political change within the sub-continent and colonial societies in general. Muslims,Islam,Christians,Hồi giáo,Đạo Hồi,Người Ki tô giáo History,History,History,Lịch sử,Lịch sử,Lịch sử India, South,India, South,India, South,Miền Nam Ấn Độ,Miền Nam Ấn Độ,Miền Nam Ấn Độ Năm Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Cần Thơ