Popular Christianity in India : Riting Between the Lines.
Raj, Selva J.
Popular Christianity in India : Riting Between the Lines. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (307 pages) - SUNY Series in Hindu Studies . - SUNY Series in Hindu Studies .
Intro -- 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 Workof an Indian Catholic Healer -- Part III. Visionaries and Missionaries:Redefining Religious Authority -- 9. Redemptive Hegemony andthe 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 LiturgyBy James Theophilus Appavoo -- 12. Afterword:Diverse Hindu Responses toDiverse 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.
Explores the lived experience of Christianity in India.
9780791487815
Electronic books.
BR1155 -- .P67 2002eb
275.4
Popular Christianity in India : Riting Between the Lines. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (307 pages) - SUNY Series in Hindu Studies . - SUNY Series in Hindu Studies .
Intro -- 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 Workof an Indian Catholic Healer -- Part III. Visionaries and Missionaries:Redefining Religious Authority -- 9. Redemptive Hegemony andthe 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 LiturgyBy James Theophilus Appavoo -- 12. Afterword:Diverse Hindu Responses toDiverse 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.
Explores the lived experience of Christianity in India.
9780791487815
Electronic books.
BR1155 -- .P67 2002eb
275.4