Raj / Dempsey Popular Christianity in India

Riting between the Lines
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8781-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 303 Seiten

Reihe: SUNY series in Hindu Studies

Explores the lived experience of Christianity in India.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Raj, Selva J.

Dempsey, Corinne G.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Foreword: The View from the Other Side: Postpostcolonialism, Religious Syncretism, and Class Conflict
Wendy Doniger
1. Introduction: Between, Behind, and Beyond the Lines
Selva J. Raj and Corinne G. Dempsey
I. Festivals and Rituals: Forging Hybrid Christian Identities
2. Chariots of the God/s: Riding the Line Between Hindu and Christian
Joanne Punzo Waghorne
3. The Ganges, the Jordan, and the Mountain: The Three Strands of Santal Popular Catholicism
Selva J. Raj
4. Past Selves and Present Others: The Ritual Construction of Identity at a Catholic Festival in India
Margaret Meibohm
5. Transgressing Boundaries, Transcending Turner: The Pilgrimage Tradition at the Shrine of St. John de Britto
Selva J. Raj
II. Saints and Wonderworkers: Healing Disease and Division
6. Lessons in Miracles from Kerala, South India: Stories of Three "Christian" Saints
Corinne G. Dempsey 7. Finding a Path in Others' Worlds: The Challenge of Exorcism
Richard D. MacPhail
8. Charismatic Transgressions: The Life and Work of an Indian Catholic Healer
Mathew N. Schmalz
III. Visionaries and Missionaries: Redefining Religious Authority
9. Redemptive Hegemony and the Ritualization of Reading
Eliza F. Kent
10. Missionary Strategy and the Development of the Christian Community: Delhi 1859-1884
John C. B. Webster
11. Dalit Theology in Tamil Christian Folk Music: A Transformative Liturgy by James Theophilus Appavoo
Zoe C. Sherinian
12. Afterword: Diverse Hindu Responses to Diverse Christianities in India
Vasudha Narayanan
Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Selva J. Raj, Chair and Associate Professor of Religious Studies, is the Stanley S. Kresge Professor of Religious Studies at Albion College. Corinne G. Dempsey is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and the author of Kerala Christian Sainthood: Collisions of Culture and Worldview in South India.