
Popular Christianity in India : Riting between the Lines.
Title:
Popular Christianity in India : Riting between the Lines.
Author:
Raj, Selva J.
ISBN:
9780791487815
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (307 pages)
Series:
SUNY Series in Hindu Studies
Contents:
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 -- 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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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