Christianty and the Culture of Resistance

Introduction\nChristianity in southeastern India was founded by one of the 12 disciples of Jesus Christ. However, the expansion of Christianity into distinguishable streams emerged due to the efforts of Christian missioner endeavors from Portugal, France, Italy, Spain, Germany and England. Christian missionaries compete a vital role in the process of social evolution. They utilize education and medical maintenance as the means of ontogenesis contact with people. The missionaries in Tamil nadu in particular worked in the field of education, medicine and in the uplift of the society. Looking at Indian society, the dominant faiths played their role of absorption, assimilation and hegemonisation. more(prenominal) often these religions have been associated with the motion of social identity and suffice of power of a effrontery people. The intervention of modernity by the mediation of colonialism and Christian missionary enterprises, in particular that of Protestant Christian ity has helped in reconstructing the social identity of subaltern people and has comfortably contributed to the emergence of emanicipatory ideation and praxis among the subaltern people in the zone of Kanyakumari which is evident in their revival meeting during the nineteenth century.\nHistorical scope\nUnderstanding the historical scope provides the right key to the sociological understanding of the emergence and military operation of religiosity of subaltern people. The south region was then called the severalize of thiruvitankur or Travancore, ruled by the heirs of King Martanda varma, which was replaced by the British during 19th century.\nThe society at that time was rigidly unionized on the basis of the discriminatory hierarchical clan outline where varnacirmatarmam was practiced ruthlessly. Casteism is the steel carcass of the Hindu society and religion became the handmaid of vice and folly. In the traditional Indian society, caste provided the framework for all human beings activities. The institution...