Constructing Indian Christianities : Culture, Conversion and Caste.
Bauman, Chad M.
Constructing Indian Christianities : Culture, Conversion and Caste. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (289 pages)
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part 1: Who and What is an Indian Christian? -- 1. Godparents and the Mother's Brother: 'Spiritual' Parenthood among the Latin Catholics of Kerala, South India -- 2. Between Christian and Hindu: Khrist Bhaktas, Catholics and the Negotiation of Devotion in the Banaras Region -- 3. Interlocking Caste with Congregation: A Political Necessity for Dalit Christians in Andhra, South India? -- Part 2: Whose Religion is Indian Christianity? -- 4. Late 16th- and Early 17th-Century Contestations of Catholic Christianity at the Mughal Court -- 5. Authority, Patronage and Customary Practices: Protestant Devotion and the Development of the Tamil Hymn in Colonial South India -- 6. From Christian Ashrams to Dalit Theology - or Beyond? An Examination of the Indigenisation/Inculturation Trend within the Indian Catholic Church -- 7. Taking the Cross and Walking from Subalternity to Modernity -- Part 3: Can Christianity be Indian? -- 8. Times of Trouble for Christians in Muslim and Hindu Societies of South Asia -- 9. The Interreligious Riot as a Cultural System: Globalisation, Geertz and Hindu-Christian Conflict -- 10. Studied Silences? Diasporic Nationalism, 'Kshatriya Intellectuals' and the Hindu American Critique of Dalit Christianity's Indianness -- Afterword I -- Afterword II -- About the Editors -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
By examining three interrelated questions -- Who and what is an Indian Christian? Whose religion is Indian Christianity? Can Christianity be Indian? -- this book draws attention to on-going 'public square' debates about Indian Christian 'ownership'. Three interrelated issues are explored thematically: caste, culture and conversion, and possible contestations within these.
9781317560272
Christianity and other religions - India.
Electronic books.
BR1155.C66 2014
275.4
Constructing Indian Christianities : Culture, Conversion and Caste. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (289 pages)
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part 1: Who and What is an Indian Christian? -- 1. Godparents and the Mother's Brother: 'Spiritual' Parenthood among the Latin Catholics of Kerala, South India -- 2. Between Christian and Hindu: Khrist Bhaktas, Catholics and the Negotiation of Devotion in the Banaras Region -- 3. Interlocking Caste with Congregation: A Political Necessity for Dalit Christians in Andhra, South India? -- Part 2: Whose Religion is Indian Christianity? -- 4. Late 16th- and Early 17th-Century Contestations of Catholic Christianity at the Mughal Court -- 5. Authority, Patronage and Customary Practices: Protestant Devotion and the Development of the Tamil Hymn in Colonial South India -- 6. From Christian Ashrams to Dalit Theology - or Beyond? An Examination of the Indigenisation/Inculturation Trend within the Indian Catholic Church -- 7. Taking the Cross and Walking from Subalternity to Modernity -- Part 3: Can Christianity be Indian? -- 8. Times of Trouble for Christians in Muslim and Hindu Societies of South Asia -- 9. The Interreligious Riot as a Cultural System: Globalisation, Geertz and Hindu-Christian Conflict -- 10. Studied Silences? Diasporic Nationalism, 'Kshatriya Intellectuals' and the Hindu American Critique of Dalit Christianity's Indianness -- Afterword I -- Afterword II -- About the Editors -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
By examining three interrelated questions -- Who and what is an Indian Christian? Whose religion is Indian Christianity? Can Christianity be Indian? -- this book draws attention to on-going 'public square' debates about Indian Christian 'ownership'. Three interrelated issues are explored thematically: caste, culture and conversion, and possible contestations within these.
9781317560272
Christianity and other religions - India.
Electronic books.
BR1155.C66 2014
275.4