ISBN:
143846505X
,
9781438465050
Language:
English
Pages:
xxvii, 290 Seiten
,
24 cm
Uniform Title:
Essays Selections
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Vernacular Catholicism, vernacular saints
DDC:
282.5482
Keywords:
Raj, Selva J.
;
Raj, Selva J
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Catholic Church India
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Tamil Nadu
;
Catholic Church India, South
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Catholic Church
;
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
;
Catholics
;
Christianity and culture
;
Christianity and culture South India
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Christianity and other religions Hinduism
;
Catholics
;
Tamil Nadu (India) Religious life and customs
;
India, South Religious life and customs
;
Tamil Nadu (India) Religious life and customs
;
South India Religious life and customs
;
Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Tamilen
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Katholizismus
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Raj, Selva J. 1952-2008
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Tamil Nadu
;
Katholische Kirche
;
Katholik
;
Indien Süd
;
Katholische Kirche
;
Katholik
Abstract:
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 groundbreaking studies on the distinctively "vernacular" Catholic traditions of Tamil Nadu in southeast India. This collection, which focuses on four rural shrines, highlights ritual variety and ritual transgression in Tamil Catholic practice and offers clues to the ritual exchange, religious hybridity, and dialogue occurring at the grassroots level between Tamil Catholics and their Hindu and Muslim neighbors. Raj also advances a new and alternative paradigm for interreligious dialogue that radically differs from models advocated by theologians, clergy, and other religious elite. In addition, essays by other leading scholars of Indian Christianity and South Asian religions - Michael Amaladoss, Purushottama Bilimoria, Corinne G. Dempsey, Eliza F. Kent, and Vasudha Narayanan - are included that amplify and creatively extend Raj?s work
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-280) and index
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