The saint in the banyan tree : Christianity and caste society in India / David Mosse.
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TextSeries: Anthropology of Christianity ; 14.Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2012Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (xx, 385 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type: - 9780520953970
- 0520953975
- 9781283613286
- 128361328X
- Christianity -- India, South
- Tamil (Indic people) -- Religion
- Christianity and other religions
- Social classes -- India, South -- Religious aspects
- Caste -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
- Tamil (Indic people) -- Religion
- Christianisme -- Inde (Sud)
- Tamouls -- Religion
- Christianisme -- Relations
- Classes sociales -- Inde (Sud) -- Aspect religieux
- Castes -- Aspect religieux -- Christianisme
- RELIGION -- Christianity -- History
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General
- Religion
- Caste -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
- Christianity
- Christianity and other religions
- Tamil (Indic people) -- Religion
- South India
- 275.4/0808694 23
- BR1156.I54 M67 2012eb
- online - EBSCO
- LB 42385
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
A Jesuit mission in history -- A culture of popular Catholicism -- Christians in village society: caste, place, and the ritualization of power -- Public worship and disputed caste: the Santiyakappar Festival over 150 years -- Christianity and Dalit struggle: 1960s to 1980s -- Hindu religious nationalism and Dalit Christian activism -- A return visit to Alapuram: religion and caste in the 2000s.
Print version record.
Skillfully combining archival research with fieldwork, this book examines the cultural impact of Christianity on Indian religious, social, and political life.
English.