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MISSIONARIES AND INDIANS IBD

AUTHORHOUSE
05 / 2017
9781524680251
Inglés

Sinopsis

This book is a fictionalized account of a teenage boy growing up in a community of Lutheran missionaries in India. It attempts to honestly portray his experiences there, steering a course between either eulogizing or condemning the missionary endeavour. Indian and missionary characters weather a cyclone and floods, try to make the grade as a missionary, send out mixed messages in sermons, have their ups and downs on a river trip on a houseboat, are taken to court, get caught up in a violent political protest, suffer through a little child&rsquo,s illness, kill a sacred monkey, become a fantasy spy, take positions on sex, hunt a tiger, and come together for a topsy-turvy retreat at the beach.The stories told in the book touch on issues of perennial interest: the collision and integration of different worlds and cultures, interpersonal relationships among and between missionaries and Indians, between children and their parents, and between servants and masters, evolution and change, inclusion versus exclusion, religious beliefs, human-environment relationships, sex education, the real and the fake, fantasy versus reality, and taking risks.

PVP
22,90