The Journey of Christianity to India in Late Antiquity

Networks and the Movement of Culture

Bibliographic Data

ID19924342
AuthorsNathanael J Andrade (Binghamton University, corresponding author)
Year2018
Publication date2018-04-19
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueJourney of Christianity to India in Late Antiquity (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/9781108296953
OpenAlexW4246066176
Open LibraryOL34737992M
ISBN9781108296953
LanguageEN
Citations received21

How did Christianity make its remarkable voyage from the Roman Mediterranean to the Indian subcontinent? By examining the social networks that connected the ancient and late antique Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean, central Asia, and Iran, this book contemplates the social relations that made such movement possible. It also analyzes how the narrative tradition regarding the apostle Judas Thomas, which originated in Upper Mesopotamia and accredited him with evangelizing India, traveled among the social networks of an interconnected late antique world. In this way, the book probes how the Thomas narrative shaped Mediterranean Christian beliefs regarding co-religionists in central Asia and India, impacted local Christian cultures, took shape in a variety of languages, and experienced transformation as it traveled from the Mediterranean to India, and back again

Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Christianity · Late Antiquity · Byzantine Studies and History · Eurasian Exchange Networks · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Philosophy · Acts of Thomas · Church history · Church history, primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 · India · Missions · Primitive and early church · Thomas, saint, apostle

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