Popular Christianity in India - Riting between the Lines (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	State University of New York Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	SUNY series in Hindu Studies
Release date:	October 2002
First published:	October 2002
Editors:	Selva J. Raj • Corinne G Dempsey
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	303
ISBN-13:	978-0-7914-5520-3
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Non-Christian religions > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > Christian institutions & organizations > Christian mission & evangelism Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Christian institutions & organizations > Christian mission & evangelism Books > Religion & Spirituality > Non-Christian religions > General Books > Christianity > Christian institutions & organizations > Christian mission & evangelism
LSN:	0-7914-5520-3
Barcode:	9780791455203

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