Privileged Minorities : Syrian Christianity, Gender, and Minority Rights in Postcolonial India /

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Syrian Christians in Kerala, India, although a demographic minority, are not a subordinated community. They are caste-, race-, and class-privileged and have long benefited economically and socially from their privileged position. In this book, the author focuses on Syrian Christian women to illumina...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thomas, Sonja (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women > Social conditions.
Social conditions.
Minorities > Social conditions.
Women > India > Kerala > Social conditions.
Minorities > India > Kerala > Social conditions.
Syriac Christians > India > Kerala > Social conditions.
India > Kerala.
Kerala (India) > Social conditions.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Syrian Christians and "God's Own Country"
  • Clothes Reading : Communal and Secular Clothing "Choices" and Women's Mobility in Kerala
  • Aryans and Dravidians : Syrian Christian Mythistories and Intersectional Racialized Oppression
  • Who Are the Minorities? : Gender, Minority Rights Protesting, and the 1959 Liberation Struggle
  • A Life without Religion : Textbooks, Morality, and Protesting across Religious Divides
  • Conclusion : Postsecular Feminisms and the Charismatic Movement.

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