Conversion and spirit possession in 19th-century Bombay presidency: Baba Padmanji and the emergence of the Indian Christian identity
Baba Padmanji Mulay’s (1831–1906) conversion to Christianity in Bombay Presidency is located in an evolving intellectual domain of confrontation between missionaries, reformers, and conservatives. This competitive atmosphere placed early converts in a state of crisis, squeezing them between British...
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| Format: | Article (Journal) |
| Language: | English |
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2024
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Social sciences and missions
Year: 2024, Volume: 37, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 191-220 |
| ISSN: | 1874-8945 |
| DOI: | 10.1163/18748945-bja10107 |
| Online Access: | Resolving-System, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1163/18748945-bja10107 Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://brill.com/view/journals/ssm/37/3-4/article-p191_2.xml 
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| Author Notes: | Deepra Dandekar |
| Summary: | Baba Padmanji Mulay’s (1831–1906) conversion to Christianity in Bombay Presidency is located in an evolving intellectual domain of confrontation between missionaries, reformers, and conservatives. This competitive atmosphere placed early converts in a state of crisis, squeezing them between British missionaries and Marathi, mostly upper-caste Hindus. Given this context, Padmanji’s rise to eminence is reflected in his ideological writings on women’s emancipation, and in his autobiographical encounter with spirit possession. This article reads Padmanji’s ideology and spirit possession anecdote as a demonstration of the Indian Christian predicament that saw a move to refashion community identity as masculine and chivalrous. |
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| Item Description: | Online-Publikationsdatum: 18 Dec 2024 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 1874-8945 |
| DOI: | 10.1163/18748945-bja10107 |