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Community and Worldview among Paraiyars of South India - 'Lived' Religion (Hardcover, New)
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Community and Worldview among Paraiyars of South India - 'Lived' Religion (Hardcover, New)
Series: Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies
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This volume presents a detailed ethnographic study of rural
Paraiyar communities in South India, focusing on their religions
and cultural identity. Formerly known as Dalits, or Untouchables,
these are a largely socially marginalised group living within a
dynamic and complex social matrix dominated by the caste system and
its social and religious implications in India. Through examining
Paraiyar Christian communities, the author provides a comprehensive
understanding of Paraiyar religious worldviews within the dominant
Hindu religious worldview. In contrast to existing research, this
volume places the Paraiyars within their wider social context,
ascribed and achieved identity, religious symbolism and ritual and
negotiation of social boundaries. In arguing that the Paraiyars
help us to understand religion as 'lived', the author removes the
concept 'religion' from the reified forms it so often obtains in
textbooks. Instead, Jeremiah demonstrates that it is only in local
and specific contexts, as opposed to essentialised notions, that
'religion' either makes any sense or that theories concerning it
can be tested.
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