Popular Christianity in India : riting between the lines
Raj (religious studies, Albion College) and Dempsey (religious studies, U. of Wisconsin-Stevens Point) argue that expressions of Christianity in India were largely unexplored by scholars and that when they were examined, they were largely top-down treatments from the standpoint of Christian power "solving" problems of the Indian other. In presenting these 12 essays, they hope to counteract these failings of scholarship by exploring how Christianity is lived in daily practice and how it interacts with other religious traditions. The papers look at hybrid Christian identities as revealed in festivals and rituals; gender, class, and other struggles over definitions of religious authority; and the uniquely Indian expressions of Christian theology. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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State University of New York Press, Albany, ©2002
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POPULAR CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA
Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword: The View from the Other Side: Postpostcolonialism, 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 Catholicism1
4. Past Selves and Present Others: The Ritual Constructionof 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 Wonderworkers: Healing Disease and Division
6. Lessons in Miracles from Kerala, South India: Stories of Three "Christian" Saints1
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 ofthe 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
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