ISBN:
9781438465050
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
xxvii, 290 pages
,
illustrations
,
24 cm
Originaltitel:
Essays Selections
Paralleltitel:
Online version Vernacular Catholicism, vernacular saints
DDC:
282/.5482
Schlagwort(e):
Raj, Selva J
;
Catholic Church
;
Catholic Church
;
Catholics
;
Christianity and culture
;
Christianity and culture South India
;
Christianity and other religions Hinduism
;
Catholics
;
Tamil Nadu (India) Religious life and customs
;
South India Religious life and customs
;
Tamilen
;
Katholizismus
;
Raj, Selva J. 1952-2008
Kurzfassung:
Hiding behind the lens : fieldwork and friendship with Selva J. Raj / Amanda Randhawa -- Being Catholic the Tamil way / Selva J. Raj -- Vernacular Catholicism in context. The story of Christianity in Tamil Nadu / Michael Amaladoss, S.J. -- Two models of indigenization in South Asian Catholicism : a critique / Selva J. Raj -- The Ganges, the Jordan, and the mountain : the three strands of Santal popular Catholicism / Selva J. Raj -- Health, healing, and fertility. Shared vows, shared space, and shared deities : vow rituals among Tamil Catholics in South India / Selva J. Raj -- Transgressing boundaries, transcending Turner : the pilgrimage tradition at the Shrine of St. John de Britto / Selva J. Raj -- An ethnographic encounter with the wondrous in a South Indian Catholic shrine / Selva J. Raj -- Status and humor, competition and communion. Public display, communal devotion : procession at a South Indian Catholic festival / Selva J. Raj -- Serious levity at the Shrine of St. Anne in South India / Selva J. Raj -- Dialogue "on the ground" : the complicated identities and the complex negotiations of Catholics and Hindus in South India / Selva J. Raj -- "Being Catholic the Tamil way" : responses and reflections. Comparative transgressions : vernacular Catholicisms in Tamil Nadu and Kerala / Corinne G. Dempsey -- Vernacular Christianities : Tamil Catholics and Tamil Protestants / Eliza F. Kent -- Extending Selva J. Raj's scholarship to Hindu American temples : accommodation, assimilation, and a dialogue of action / Vasudha Narayanan -- Re-inventing "classical" Indian dance with or without indigenous spirituality in three contemporary "secular" continents / Purushottama Bilimoria -- Afterword / Wendy Doniger -- Postscript : the tie that binds / Selva J. Raj
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-280) and index
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