New on the GHIL #blog! 📇 Former GHIL #scholarship holder Gabriele Bellinzona (Universität Hamburg) examines the Lutheran–Pietist mission in Tranquebar and its relationship to Roman Catholic and other Christian communities in southern India in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. 1/3
Drawing on the Halle Reports and New Halle Reports, he shows how the Tranquebar missionaries documented and negotiated these interdenominational encounters, while also relying on Catholic linguistic groundwork in Tamil and other local languages. 📖 Find out more: ghil.hypotheses.org/... 2/3

The Danish–English–Halle Missi...
The Danish–English–Halle Mission (1706–1845) and its Connection to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge

My dissertation project is based on the relationship between the Lutheran–Pietist mission in Tranquebar (1706–1845) and similar locations, and the other Christian denominations, particularly the Roman Catholics, that also promoted their faith in southern India in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The first documented reference by a Lutheran to other Christians is found in the … Continue reading The Danish–English–Halle Mission (1706–1845) and its Connection to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge

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