
The big questions of religious history
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I Think the Presentation of Christianity in the West Is a Bit Baffling
I think christianity is as misunderstood in the west as islam or hindoism. It's a way in which i've often struggled to see, the way in which the specialization on the history and doctrines of christianity in the west don't seem to at all be sensitive to,. for example, the long history ofchristianity in india. I mean, i pretty much goes back to the early century, if not the first century, of the christian era. But certainly, when you look at the range of doctrinal commitments, as well as the really subtle and complex interplay between christianity an india withwih larger hindu cultural trends.
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