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Popular Christianity in India

Riting between the Lines

Häftad, Engelska, 2002

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Explores the lived experience of Christianity in India.Popular Christianity in India explores Indian Christianity as crafted and expressed through lived experience, providing an important balance to currently available, typically theological, studies. Drawing from many disciplines, this volume unearths the multifaceted terrain of festivals, rituals, saints, miracle workers, missionaries, and visionaries in Christian India, providing a wonderful glimpse of its richness and complexities. The contributors reveal the ways in which local Christian traditions deftly challenge assumed divisions and power imbalances between East and West, Hindu and Christian, foreign and indigenous, and elite and local expressions. Whether forging complicated religious, caste, and national identities, employing religious hybridity to promote well-being, or asserting autonomy within oppressive social and religious structures, local Christianity provides a crucial means for its participants to manage their earthly needs and desires.

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Utgivningsdatum2002-10-24
Mått152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt463 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSUNY series in Hindu Studies
Antal sidor303
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9780791455203

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Acknowledgments Foreword: The View from the Other Side: Postpostcolonialism, Religious Syncretism, and Class ConflictWendy Doniger 1. Introduction: Between, Behind, and Beyond the LinesSelva J. Raj and Corinne G. Dempsey I. Festivals and Rituals: Forging Hybrid Christian Identities 2. Chariots of the God/s: Riding the Line Between Hindu and ChristianJoanne Punzo Waghorne 3. The Ganges, the Jordan, and the Mountain: The Three Strands of Santal Popular CatholicismSelva J. Raj 4. Past Selves and Present Others: The Ritual Construction of Identity at a Catholic Festival in IndiaMargaret Meibohm 5. Transgressing Boundaries, Transcending Turner: The Pilgrimage Tradition at the Shrine of St. John de BrittoSelva J. Raj II. Saints and Wonderworkers: Healing Disease and Division 6. Lessons in Miracles from Kerala, South India: Stories of Three "Christian" SaintsCorinne G. Dempsey 7. Finding a Path in Others' Worlds: The Challenge of ExorcismRichard D. MacPhail 8. Charismatic Transgressions: The Life and Work of an Indian Catholic HealerMathew N. Schmalz III. Visionaries and Missionaries: Redefining Religious Authority 9. Redemptive Hegemony and the Ritualization of ReadingEliza F. Kent 10. Missionary Strategy and the Development of the Christian Community: Delhi 1859–1884John C. B. Webster 11. Dalit Theology in Tamil Christian Folk Music: A Transformative Liturgy by James Theophilus AppavooZoe C. Sherinian 12. Afterword: Diverse Hindu Responses to Diverse Christianities in IndiaVasudha Narayanan Contributors Index

"…this is a worthwhile addition to the study of Indian religions." — Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute"The authors draw on their own fresh and original fieldwork and research and give us data and insights that are unlikely to be found elsewhere. A remarkable milestone, this volume fills an important niche in the study of India and will be of great value." — Francis X. Clooney, S. J., author of Seeing through Texts: Doing Theology among the Srivaisnava of South India