Attempting to Transform the Mental Landscape of the Indian 'Heathen' in Mary Sherwood's The Indian Pilgrim (1818)

This article focuses on Mary Sherwood's Christian catechetical narrative The Indian Pilgrim (1818). It proposes that the narrative needs to be contextualised in relation to the author's involvement in Anglican Evangelical proselytising activities within the subcontinent in the early ninete...

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Main Author: Malhotra, Ashok (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press [2018]
In: Literature and theology
Year: 2018, Volume: 32, Issue: 3, Pages: 270-289
RelBib Classification:AG Religious life; material religion
BK Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism
CD Christianity and Culture
KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history
KDG Free church
RF Christian education; catechetics
RJ Mission; missiology
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