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Christianity and Belonging in Shimla, North India - Sacred Entanglements of a Himalayan Landscape (Paperback)
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Christianity and Belonging in Shimla, North India - Sacred Entanglements of a Himalayan Landscape (Paperback)
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Material Religion
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This book explores the material religion of contemporary Shimla, a
vibrant postcolonial city, famed for its colonial heritage, set
against the backdrop of the North-Western Himalayas. Jonathan
Miles-Watson demonstrates that this landscape is able to peacefully
reconcile the apparent tensions of faith, heritage and identity in
a way that unseats traditional theories of religion, politics and
heritage. It presents a mystery that is written in space through
time; the key to unlocking this mystery lies in clear view, at the
city’s heart, in the contemporary material religion that
surrounds nominally Christian sacred sites. Although the material
religion centres on landscapes that are identifiable as Christian,
the book demonstrates that Hindus, atheists and Sikhs all have a
role to play in the mutually constitutive relations that lie at the
centre of these knots of sacred entanglement. This book builds upon
over a decade of research to present an ethnographic account of
devotional practices that speaks to contemporary developments in
both the anthropology of Christianity and material religion.
Through this exploration the book answers the mystery of Shimla’s
postcolonial harmony, while complicating established theories in
the anthropology of religion, postcolonial studies, mythography,
heritage studies and material culture.
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