Catholic Ashrams Sannyasins or Swindlers

SITA RAM GOEL

Voice of India, New Delhi

Contents
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
APPENDIX 1 : Malaysia Hindus Protest Christian “Sadhu”
APPENDIX 2 : Missionary’s Dirty Tricks
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
APPENDIX 1 : Different Paths Meeting in God
APPENDIX 2 : “Liberal” Christianity
APPENDIX 3 : The Great Command and a Cosmic Auditing
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
Bibliography