The saint in the banyan tree : Christianity and caste society in India /
David Mosse.
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2012.
- xx, 385 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
- The anthropology of Christianity ; 14 .
- Anthropology of Christianity ; 14. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-355) 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.