Catholic Ashrams

Sannyasins or Swindlers

SITA RAM GOEL

Voice of India, New Delhi

C ontents

Preface

SECTION I

THE ASHRAM MOVEMENT IN THE CHRISTIAN MISSION

1. New Labels for Old Merchandise

2. Indigenisation: A Predatory Enterprise

3. The Patron Saint of Indigenisation

4. Mission's Volte-Face vis-a-vis Hindu Culture

5. The Ashram Movement in the Mission

6. The Trinity from Tannirpalli

7. An Imperialist Hangover

SECTION II

MISSION STRAEGY EXPOSED BY HINDUISM TODAY

8. Catholic Ashrams : Adopting and Adapting Hindu Dharma

9. The J.R. Ewing Syndrome

10. Interview with Father Bruno Barnhardt: Emmaculate Heart Hermitage

11. Returning to the Hindu Fold: A Primer

SECTION III

THE DIALOGUES



12. The First Dialogue

13. The Second Dialogue

14. The Third Dialogue

SECTION IV

THE MISSIONARY MIND



15. Bede Griffiths Drops the Mask

SECTION V : APPENDICES

THE ORGANISATIONAL WEAPON



I. Christian Ashrams in India, Nepal and Sri Lanka

II. A Glimpse of Mission Finance

III. Thy Kingdom is the Third World

IV. Christianity Mainly for Export: God's Legionaries

V. Proselytisation as it is Practised



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