1) What are the main arguments of the author?
The main arguments of the author are that Pentecostal Christians are the victims of violent attacks in India at a rate that is inordinately high. Yet the subject receives little attention either in the mainstream press or in the Indian media. It appears that there is a cultural hostility directed towards Christians in general in India and towards Pentecostalism in particular. The book’s intention is to shed light on this phenomenon by highlighting the details of the Pentecostals in India, their relationship to anti-Christian violence and what can be learned from the examination.
The author seeks to apply an “everyday” lens to the work and show that the violence against this Christian group is “routinized” and “entrenched as one relatively regular form…of communication between Hindus and Christians.”[footnoteRef:1] He also seeks to show that the mainstream Catholic and Protestant churches are not the targets of violence but rather that the missionary and especially the Pentecostal churches are the ones that are routinely targeted. The author’s main argument is that there is an organization in Hindu society in India that seeks to divide the Pentecostal community and drive it away from Indian society. This group is national rather than local and the attacks are often perpetrated by members of this organization rather than by locals with direct contact or association with the Pentecostal community. In other words, the violence is not organic but rather systematic and part of an evidently pre-planned purge that has been designed and put into practice in India.
2) What can one learn from this? [1: Chad Bauman, Pentecostals, Proselytization, and Anti-Christian Violence in Contemporary India; Oxford University Press: 2015, p. 3.]
One can learn from this that in any society there are cultural institutions that will clash with other and cause friction to develop. The institutions will operate on an ideological level and will override communal concerns because they will not see the other as human beings but rather as obstacles or enemies of their own ideological aims and ideals. In this case, the Hindu Organization (RSS) antagonizes the Pentecostal churches wherever they are found in India. The need for better understanding and dialogue among these groups is apparent—but arriving at a place where such an...
Bibliography
Bauman, Chad. Pentecostals, Proselytization, and Anti-Christian Violence in
Contemporary India. UK: Oxford University Press: 2015.
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