Table of Contents

• Editor's Preface
• Introduction
• 1 The Origins of Indian-Initiated Churches
• 2 Revivals and the Reframing of Indian Christianity
• 3 The Indian Pentecostal Church of God and The Independence Movement
• 4 The Bakht Singh Assemblies and the Independence Movement
• 5 Bhakti Devotion and the Rise of the India Bible Mission
• 6 Yesu Darbar: Spiritual Power and Popular Hinduism
• 7 New Life Fellowship: Re-forming the Church in Urban India
• Conclusion: Christianity Made in India

About the Author

Paul Joshua, who died in 2016, was Lecturer in Theology at the South Asia Institute of Advanced Christian Studies (SAIACS) in Bangalore, India. He published many essays and articles on Indian Christianity, two co-edited books, Missiology for the 21st Century: South Asian Perspectives (2004), and Indian & Christian: Changing Identities in Modern India (2011). Dr. Joshua is survived by his wife, Sumitha; three children, Sithara, Tharika, and Pratheek; son-in-law, Jacob; and granddaughter, Sasha Jacob.

Joel A. Carpenter is provost and professor emeritus of Calvin University. He is a senior research fellow at Calvin's Nagel Institute for the Study of World Christianity, and he is the editor of the Studies in World Christianity series with Baylor University Press.

Reviews

Paul Joshua's study, Christianity Remade: The Rise of Indian-Initiated Churches, is a work of substantial scholarship, standing both as a significant contribution to our understanding of Indian Christianity, and a corrective to the long-held view of this tradition as in some sense non-Indic. Throughout, Joshua presents his arguments with great clarity of thought, narrating them in well-crafted prose and substantiating them with a detailed scholarly apparatus. In exposing the structural elements that reveal the essential Indianness of Indian Christianity, Joshua has provided a path forward for scholars in exploring what he shows us to be the rich and varied cultural and religious landscape of Indian Christianity.-- "Nidan: International Journal for Indian Studies"

By taking and comparing often ignored local-led mission work during the colonialperiod as well as contemporary revival movements, the author distills many lessonsfor churches and mission agencies today in India and around the world. This religiosociocultural-historical analysis of Indian-led revivals brings out many themes andinsights that are pertinent to all Christian leaders--Sam George, Wheaton College Billy Graham Center "Missiology: An International Review"

In Christianity Remade, Paul Joshua put forth a persuasive case to see Indian Christanity as an 'Indian-initiated' phenomenon beginning in the nineteenth century.--Allan Varghese Meloottu "Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentacostal Studies"

... an excellent addition to a historian's library on Indian Christianity.--Shivraj K. Mahendra "Asian American Theological Forum"

This book stands out for the combination of Indian popular piety and the gospel of Jesus Christ as found in the Indian reading of the Bible. While reading this book, one gets inspired by the courage and zeal the leaders of IICs had for Christ and their never-give-up spirit to bring the truth of the gospel to the Indians.--Anthony D'Souza, SJ "Vidyajyoti Journal of Theological Reflection"