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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462079503321

Titolo

Popular Christianity in India [[electronic resource] ] : riting between the lines / / edited by Selva J. Raj and Corinne G. Dempsey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2002

ISBN

0-7914-8781-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (307 p.)

Collana

SUNY series in Hindu studies

Altri autori (Persone)

RajSelva J

DempseyCorinne G

Disciplina

275.4

Soggetti

Christianity - India

Electronic books.

India Church history

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""POPULAR CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Foreword: The View from the Other Side: Post colonialism, Religious Syncretism, and Class Conflict""; ""1. Introduction: Between, Behind, and Beyond the Lines""; ""Part I. Festivals and Rituals: Forging Hybrid Christian Identities""; ""2. Chariots of the God/s: Riding the Line Between Hindu and Christian""; ""3. The Ganges, The Jordan, and the Mountain: The Three Strands of Santal Popular Catholicism 1""; ""4. Past Selves and Present Others: The Ritual Construction of Identity at a Catholic Festival in India*""

""5. Transgressing Boundaries, Transcending Turner:The Pilgrimage Tradition at the Shrine of St. John de Britto1""""Part II. Saints and Wonder workers: Healing Disease and Division""; ""6. Lessons in Miracles from Kerala, South India: Stories of Three Christian Saints 1""; ""7. Finding a Path in Others Worlds: The Challenge of Exorcism""; ""8. Charismatic Transgressions: The Life and Work of an Indian Catholic Healer""; ""Part III. Visionaries and Missionaries: Redefining Religious Authority""; ""9. Redemptive Hegemony and the Ritualization of Reading""

""10. Missionary Strategy and the Development of the Christian Community: Delhi 1859-1884""""11. Dalit Theology in Tamil Christian Folk Music: A Transformative Liturgy By James Theophilus Appavoo"";



""12. Afterword: Diverse Hindu Responses to Diverse Christianities in India""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""; ""Untitled""