Vernacular Catholicism, vernacular saints : Selva J. Raj on "Being Catholic the Tamil way" /

T the turn of the twenty-first century, Selva J. Raj (1952?2008) was one of the most important scholars of popular Indian Christianity and South Asian religion in North America. Vernacular Catholicism, Vernacular Saints gathers together, for the first time in a single volume, a series of his groundb...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Raj, Selva J. (Autor)
Otros Autores: Locklin, Reid B. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany, New York : State University of New York Press, [2017]
Temas:
Raj, Selva J.
Catholic Church > India > Tamil Nadu.
Catholic Church > India, South.
Catholic Church
Catholics > India > Tamil Nadu.
Catholics > India, South.
Christianity and culture > India > Tamil Nadu.
Christianity and culture > South India.
Christianity and other religions > Hinduism.
Catholiques > Inde > Tamil Nadu.
Catholiques > Inde (Sud)
Christianisme > Relations > Hindouisme.
RELIGION > Christianity > Catholic.
Catholics
Christianity
Christianity and culture
Hinduism
Interfaith relations
Tamil Nadu (India) > Religious life and customs.
India, South > Religious life and customs.
Tamil Nadu (Inde) > Vie religieuse.
Inde (Sud) > Vie religieuse.
South India
India > Tamil Nadu
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Hiding behind the lens : fieldwork and friendship with Selva J. Raj / by Amanda Randhawa
  • Being Catholic the Tamil way / by Selva J. Raj
  • Vernacular Catholicism in context
  • The story of Christianity in Tamil Nadu / by Michael Amaladoss, S.J
  • Two models of indigenization in South Asian Catholicism : a critique / by Selva J. Raj
  • The Ganges, the Jordan, and the mountain : the three strands of Santal popular Catholicism / by Selva J. Raj
  • Health, healing, and fertility
  • Shared vows, shared space, and shared deities : vow rituals among Tamil Catholics in South India / by Selva J. Raj
  • Transgressing boundaries, transcending turner : the pilgrimage tradition at the Shrine of St. John de Britto / by Selva J. Raj
  • An ethnographic encounter with the wondrous in a South Indian Catholic shrine by / Selva J. Raj
  • Status and humor, competition, and communion
  • Public display, communal devotion : procession at a South Indian Catholic festival / by Selva J. Raj
  • Serious levity at the Shrine of St. Anne in South India / by Selva J. Raj
  • Dialogue on the ground the complicated identities and the complex negotiations of Catholics and Hindus in South India / by Selva J. Raj
  • Being Catholic the Tamil way : responses and reflections
  • Comparative transgressions : vernacular Catholicisms in Tamil Nadu and Kerala / by Corinne G. Dempsey
  • Vernacular Christianities : Tamil Catholics and Tamil Protestants / by Eliza F. Kent
  • Extending Selva J. Raj's scholarship to Hindu American temples : accommodation, assimilation, and a dialogue of action / by Vasudha Narayanan
  • Re-inventing classical Indian dance with or without indigenous spirituality in three contemporary secular continents / by Purushottama Bilimoria
  • Afterword / by Wendy Doniger
  • Postscript: the tie that binds / by Selva J. Raj.

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