How Protestant Missions Transformed the Indo-Myanmar Frontier

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4299712
AutoresG Kanato Chophy (0000-0002-1786-5313, Dibrugarh University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2025
Volumen19
Número1
Fecha de publicación2025-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaReligion Compass (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1749-8171 • E-ISSN: 1749-8171
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/rec3.70013
OpenAlexW4406875498
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas20

What makes the Indo-Myanmar frontier is the 1,021-mile borderline between India and Myanmar. Notably, this frontier region lies at the junction of East, South, and South East Asia, forming a kind of geopolitical space where the culture, economy, and politics of India, Myanmar, China, and Bangladesh have exerted considerable influence. Though hemmed in by these nations, the Indo-Myanmar frontier region stands out for its Western Protestantism roots, which has far-reaching impact on the society, politics, and culture of the region's diverse ethnic communities. This article explores how the Protestant missions, especially the American Baptist mission, starting from the second half of the nineteenth century transformed this backwater of British India into arguably one of the most successful Christian missionary legacies in the whole of Asia

Ancient history · Archaeology · Frontier · Geography · Protestantism · Theology · Traditional medicine · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · History · Medicine · Philosophy · Psychology · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies