Women under the Cross

This is one of the rare books to be written on Christian women in India. It is a sociological study but has the rang and depth of a historical work. The author as not limited herself to a micro level study of Protestant Christian women in the town of Jabalpur, but has attempted a broad macro level analysis of the ideology of the Christian Church, the entry and spread of Protestant faith in India and its impact on the lives of Christian converts. The book focuses minutely on the conceptualization of gender within the Christian Cosmology and how this has defined the role and status of women within the Christian families. In a dynamic analysis the author has outlined the changes taking palace in the position of women over the historical phase from early conversion to the onset of modernity.

This is a work that will interest a variety of scholars, sociologists, social anthropologists, historian, feminist scholars and those engaged in gender studies, religion, political science, policy making and studies of social change.
About the Author

Ms. NALINI KELLER is an alumnus of Jabalpur University from where she obtained Master’s degree in History and in Sociology.

She is at present Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology in Nav Yug Arts and Commerce College, Jabalpur. Here she has been involved inn various cultural activities and has been a programme officer of N.S.S. for a number of year Ms. NALINI KELLER has contributed a number of articles inn several magazine and is a regular writer in the magazine ‘Samaj Kalyan’. She has attended various state and national conferences. She is a visiting professor in Tribal P.S.C. College, Jabalpur and Indira Gandhi Open University.