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Constructing Indian Christianities : Culture, Conversion and Caste.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (289 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781317560272
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Constructing Indian ChristianitiesDDC classification:
  • 275.4
LOC classification:
  • BR1155.C66 2014
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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