| Popular Christianity in India: Riting Between the Lines Contributor(s): Raj, Selva J. (Editor), Dempsey, Corinne G. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 079145519X ISBN-13: 9780791455197 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2002 Annotation: Popular Christianity in India explores Indian Christianity as crafted and expressed through lived experience, providing an important balance to currently available, typically theological, studies. Drawing from many disciplines, this volume unearths the multifaceted terrain of festivals, rituals, saints, miracle workers, missionaries, and visionaries in Christian India, providing a wonderful glimpse of its richness and complexities. The contributors reveal the ways in which local Christian traditions deftly challenge assumed divisions and power imbalances between East and West, Hindu and Christian, foreign and indigenous, and elite and local expressions. Whether forging complicated religious, caste, and national identities, employing religious hybridity to promote well-being, or asserting autonomy within oppressive social and religious structures, local Christianity provides a crucial means for its participants to manage their earthly needs and desires. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - History |
| Dewey: 275.4 |
| LCCN: 2001057788 |
| Series: Suny Hindu Studies |
| Physical Information: 303 pages |