Rethinking religious conversion: missionary endeavor and religious response among the Zo (Chin) of the India-Burma borderland

In the late nineteenth century Christian missionaries landed in a remote corner of India-Burma to seek converts in a "heathen" land, known as Chin Hills, now Chin State of Burma. The Christian mission was an extension of the American Baptist Mission, which had already been working in diffe...

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Main Author: Pau, Pum Khan (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Creighton University 2012
In: The journal of religion & society
Year: 2012, Volume: 14
Further subjects:B Burma; Church history
B Missions; Burma
B Nativistic movements; Burma
B Culture conflict
B Christians; Burma
B Chin (Southeast Asian people)
B Culture and Christianity
B Pau Cin Hau
B b 1859
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