By identifying ourselves as bhaktas of Christ, and telling our friends we would like to see them also become bhaktas of Christ, we are keeping (or placing) ourselves clearly in the Hindu cultural tradition and eliminating any thought of de-nationalising or destroying a cultural heritage. We are also side-stepping the many complex communal issues, and the problems of differentiation between Christians and "true" Christians.
https://www.bhaktivani.com/volume1/number1/believers.html
the vital similarities between an emerging Protestantism and the deep-rooted yet downgraded bhakti sects led the missionaries to build Christianity on the religious spaces created by these sects. Jones persuasively argues that far from replacing Hinduism and Islam, Christianity had to settle in the margins, in the “Thirdspaces” of the bhakti-inspired movements.
Christian Bhakti music of India -
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