Popular Christianity in India Riting Between the Lines

Name: Popular Christianity in India Riting Between the Lines
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ISBN: 9780791455203

ISBN-10: 0791455203

ISBN-13: 9780791455203

Edition: 2002

Authors: Selva J. Raj, Corinne G. Dempsey

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List price: $36.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 10/24/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 303
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Foreword: The View from the Other Side: Postpostcolonialism, Religious Syncretism, and Class Conflict




Introduction: Between, Behind, and Beyond the Lines




Festivals and Rituals: Forging Hybrid Christian Identities



Chariots of the God/s: Riding the Line Between Hindu and Christian




The Ganges, the Jordan, and the Mountain: The Three Strands of Santal Popular Catholicism




Past Selves and Present Others: The Ritual Construction of Identity at a Catholic Festival in India




Transgressing Boundaries, Transcending Turner: The Pilgrimage Tradition at the Shrine of St. John de Britto




Saints and Wonderworkers: Healing Disease and Division



Lessons in Miracles from Kerala, South India: Stories of Three "Christian" Saints




Finding a Path in Others' Worlds: The Challenge of Exorcism




Charismatic Transgressions: The Life and Work of an Indian Catholic Healer




Visionaries and Missionaries: Redefining Religious Authority



Redemptive Hegemony and the Ritualization of Reading




Missionary Strategy and the Development of the Christian Community: Delhi 1859-1884




Dalit Theology in Tamil Christian Folk Music: A Transformative Liturgy by James Theophilus Appavoo




Afterword: Diverse Hindu Responses to Diverse Christianities in India



Contributors


Index