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"Missionaries
in India: Continuities, Changes, Dilemmas"
by Arun Shourie
Arun Shourie is India's leading
writer on politics and history as well as an economist with
the World Bank, a consultant in the planning commission and
the editor of Indian Express. The book is based on an invited
lecture, he gave at the 50th anniversary meeting of the Catholic
Bishops Conference of India in January 1994. The conclusions
drawn by the book are that even though the Church worldwide
has long abandoned most of the falsehoods it has used throughout
the ages to convert people, in India, missionaries are still
using those to convert people.
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"Pseudo-Secularism Christian Missions and
Hindu Resistance"
by Sita Ram Goel
Sita Ram Goel is a accomplished author and founder of the
publishing company "Voice of India", who has written
many books on Hindu causes and Hindu revivalism. This book
summarizes two books "Asia and Western Dominance"
by K M Panikkar and "Missionaries in India" by
Arun Shourie, and the "Report of Christian Missionary
Activities Committee Madhya Pradesh", and 2 bills "
Freedom of Religion" and " Maharshtra Freedom
of Religion Bill".
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"Outside the Fold - Conversion, Modernity,
and Belief"
by Gauri Viswanathan
The Gauri Viswanathan is a professor of Humanities at Columbia
University. The book is a radical reexamination of religious
conversion. This work examines key moments in colonial and
postcolonial history to show how conversion questions the
limitations of secular ideologies, particularly the discourse
of rights central to both the British empire and the British
nation-state. In the book, Viswanathan says that "religious
conversion is probably one of the most unsettling political
events in the life of any society."
Winner of the 2000 Ananda K Coomaraswamy Prize, awarded
by the Association for Asian studies. The 1999 James Russell
Lowell Prize, awarded by the Modern Language Association
And the 1999 Harry Levin Prize, awarded by the American
Comparative Literature Association.
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"Harvesting Our Souls - Missionaries, their
design, their claims"
by Arun Shourie
Another book by Arun Shourie that shows up the claims of
missionaries, that nails their design, that bares their
technology and sets out what should be done. Shourie asks:
"How come our secularists insist that conversion is
not the aim of the Church when the Church repeatedly and
explicitly declares that the singular aim of all its activities
is to convert non-Christians to Christianity?
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"History of Hindu-Christian Encounters (AD
304 to 1996)"
by Sita Ram Goel
There is no connected account of how Hindu thinkers, saints
and sages have viewed Christianity and its exclusive claims.
Another book by Shri Sita Ram Goel is an enlarged and updated
attempt to fill that gap, and seeks to cover some of the
high spots in this prolonged encounter. The book explores
the view that Christianity has never been a religion; it
has always been predatory imperialism par excellence. The
encounter, therefore, should be viewed as battle between
two totally opposed and mutually exclusive ways of thought
and behavior.
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"Catholic Ashrams: Sannyasins or Swindlers?"
Another book by Sita Ram Goel, that details how missionaries
operate in India and how they present Christianity as an
indigenous faith in order to convert. The title is derived
from the tactic that Christian missionaries dress and live
like Hindu sannyasins and Christian mission stations look
like Hindu ashrams. This book is should not only be read
but should also be preserved in the personal collections
of all truth seekers
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"Asia and Western Dominance"
by K. M. Panikkar
Panikkar writes: "the doctrine of the monopoly of
truth and revelation is alien to the Hindu and Buddhist
mind... to them the claim of any sect that it alone represented
the truth and others shall be condemned has always seemed
unreasonable." Starting with the arrival of Vasco da
Gama from Portugal at Calicut in 1498, the book gives a
fresh perspective by undertaking a study of European activities
in Asia for the last 500 years.
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"Mother Teresa, the Final Verdict"
by Anoup Chatterjee
Dr. Aroup Chatterjee has presented meticulously researched
unimpeachable evidence (photograph, video, recorded telephone
conversations, ...) exposing the enormous lie behind the
myth of Mother Teresa's activities and how she was more
interested in missionary activity than in sincere charity.
Amidst the unquestioned acceptance of this "mother
of all myths" at least one person has stood up and
exposed the lie. The book also illustrates how the media
can create extraordinary myths leaving truth far behind.
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"The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in
Theory and Practice"
by Christopher Hitchens
Recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, feted by politicians,
the Church and the world's media, Mother Teresa of Calcutta
appears to be on the fast track to sainthood. But what,
asks Christopher Hitchens, makes Mother Teresa so divine?
In a frank expose of the Teresa cult, Hitchens details the
nature and limits of one woman's mission to the world's
poor. He unmasks pseudo-miracles, questions Mother Teresa's
fitness to adjudicate on matters of sex and reproduction,
and reports on a version of saintly ubiquity which affords
genial relations with dictators, corrupt tycoons and convicted
frauds.
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"Conversion to Christianity, Aggression in
India"
by M.S. Srinivasan
To spread Christianity in India, what intrigues were pursued
by the foreign Indologists including Max Muller? How do
the Missionary schools spread Christianity? In order to
destroy the roots of the Hindu Heritage, what are the actions
taken by Christians? Answering questions like these,
Dr. Srinivasan has explored every aspect of Christian aggression
in India, starting with the earliest so called scholarly
encounters to the latest visit of the Pope.
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"Vindicated by Time:
The Niyogi Committee Report
On Christian Missionary Activities"
by Sita Ram Goel
Analysis of a stunning 1956 report by the late Sita Ram
Goel on the massive organization of Christian missionary
groups and the rate of conversions in India.
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of Dharma (Free)
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