A rice Christian is someone who has formally declared himself/herself a Christian for material benefits.^[1] The term is often used pejoratively.

The term comes from Asian countries, such as India, in which local populations suffering economically under Western colonialism and Unequal Treaties nominally converted to Christianity in hopes of getting food from Christian missionaries. Concerns have been expressed both by Christian missionaries and by those opposed to Christian missions that people in these situations are nominally converting to Christianity in order to receive charity or material advancements.^[2]

[edit] See also

• Religion of the Yellow Stick
• Christianity in Asia
• Mission (Christian)

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