The construction of Pakistani Christian identity
The construction of Pakistani Christian identity / John O'Brien / Research Society of Pakistan University of the Punjab Quaid-i-Azam Campus, Lahore / Hardcover ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I am grateful to the many people who encouraged me in the endeavour which has resulted in this study. My thanks go to Dr. S. Qalb-i-Abid and the Research Society of Pakistan for their commitment to its publication. I am likewise indebted to the Spiriton community in Pakiston for their fraternal interest in the project and especially to Michael Liston, for innumerable insightful comments on its progress. The participants in the Naia Mashra, Naia Inson (New Society. New Person) workshops held over the last fourteen years, never failed to enlighten me as to the generative themes in the lives of the minorities of Pakistan. Missionaries of a previous generation, mostly now retired or deceased, recounted much from their vast store of wisdom. Among them I must mention especially the late Henri Van der Brouke. I thank Abid Habib and Piet Cooman who facilitated occess to important unpublished material.