TY - BOOK ID - 32768095 TI - The journey of Christianity to India in late antiquity PY - 2018 SN - 9781108419123 1108419127 9781108296953 9781108409551 1108317790 1108296955 1108321518 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Church history KW - Missions KW - Missions. KW - Primitive and early church. KW - History KW - Thomas, KW - Acts of Thomas. KW - 30-600. KW - India. KW - 027 <540> KW - 266 <540> KW - Apostolic Church KW - Christianity KW - Church, Apostolic KW - Early Christianity KW - Early church KW - Primitive and early church KW - Primitive Christianity KW - Fathers of the church KW - Great Apostasy (Mormon doctrine) KW - 266 <540> Missies. Evangelisatie. Zending--India KW - 266 <540> Missions. Evangelisation--India KW - Missies. Evangelisatie. Zending--India KW - Missions. Evangelisation--India KW - 027 <540> Algemene bibliotheken--India KW - Algemene bibliotheken--India KW - Didymos, KW - Didymos Judas Thomas, KW - Didymus, KW - Ḟoma, KW - Bible. KW - De miraculis sancti Thomae apostoli KW - Passio sancti Thomae apostoli KW - Thomasakten KW - History. KW - Missions - India - History. KW - Church history - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600. KW - Inde KW - Christianisme KW - Thomas ap. KW - Acta apocrypha KW - Thomas, - Apostle, Saint, - active 1st century. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32768095 AB - 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. ER -