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The revolutionary concept of a school along with every church (palliyum pallikoodavum) was also implemented by Chavara [8].He also initiated the practice of a mid-day meal scheme in schools [9].In contrast to northern India, the reformation in Kerala was driven by the lower castes.
Many Protestant denominations are represented in India, the result of missionary activities throughout the country especially under British rule in India.The largest Protestant denomination in the country is the Church of South India, since 1947 a union of Presbyterian, Reformed, Congregational, Methodist, and Anglican congregations with approximately 4 million members as of 2014.
A modern researcher describes the Sabha's philosophy as modern middle-class (bourgeois) Vedanta. [17]. Among its first members were the "two giants of Hindu reformation and Bengal Renaissance", Akshay Kumar Datta , who in 1839 emerged from the life of an "anonymous squalor-beset individual", and Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar , the "indigenous ...
A religious reform (from Latin re-: "back, again", and formare: "to form"; i.e. put together: "to restore, reconstruct, rebuild") aims at the reform of religious teachings. It is not to be confused with an organizational reform of a religious community, though mostly this is a consequence of a reform of religious teachings.
The church has relationships with the United Reformed Churches in North America. [6] In addition, he is a member of the Reformed and Presbyterian Fellowship of India, [1] World Reformed Fellowship [3] and the International Conference of Reformed Churches (since 2022). [4] [5]
The Christian ashram movement (not to be confused with United Christian Ashrams) is a movement within Christianity in India that embraces Vedanta [1] and the teachings of the East, attempting to combine the Christian faith with the Hindu ashram model and Christian monasticism with the Hindu sannyasa tradition.
The Arya Samaj is a monotheistic Hindu reform movement founded in India by Maharshi Dayananda in 1875 at Bombay. He was an ascetic who believed in the infallible authority of the Vedas. [15] It aimed to be a universal structure based on the authority of the Vedas. Dayananda stated that he wanted 'to make the world noble', i.e., to return ...
From this missionary work the Evangelical Convention Church was organized. [3] In the 1970s, one of the pastors of this denomination, the Rev. Vung D. Tombing, attended Covenant Theological Seminary at Presbyterian Church in America. [4] After returning to India in 1977, this pastor had a great influence on the Evangelical Convention Church.