Pandita Ramabai and World Christianity

Professor Robert Eric Frykenberg, professor emeritus of history and South Asian studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison, will speak on “Pandita Ramabai and World Christianity” 3:30 p.m. Jan. 25 in Kerrwood Hall on the upper Westmont campus.

The lecture, part of the series on World Christianity is free and open to the public. This series seeks to draw the attention of students, faculty and interested community members to the global presence of Christianity, particularly in the non-Western world.

Frykenberg has written several important books on the history of India and has co-edited of a book series on the history of Protestant missions in the non-Western world. Recently, he published Pandita Ramabai’s “America” (Eerdmans, 2003), an early 20th century account of a high-caste Hindu woman who converted to Christianity and helped improve the lives of India’s women, especially widows, who were often enslaved, forced into prostitution or burned to death. At present, Frykenberg is completing the Oxford History of Christianity in India.

For more information, please contact History Professor Chandra Mallampalli at (805) 565-6139. For directions, visit www.westmont.edu.