Poverty, politics, and religion. Plight of India's poor

Description

Charges against Christian missionaries for unlawful conversions and desecration of Hindu shrines are fodder for militant Hindu revivalists who seek to claim converts for themselves-and justification for their acts of violence against India's Christian minority. This gripping program investigates the political agendas behind the violence, as the tribal poor-many of whom have benefited socioeconomically from embracing Christianity-are coercively reclaimed by a Hinduism of which they were never a part.

Runtime

31 min

Subjects

Geography

Genre

Date of Publication

[2006], c1999

Database

Films on Demand

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