The saint in the banyan tree : Christianity and caste society in India / David Mosse.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Anthropology of Christianity ; 14.Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2012.Description: xx, 385 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780520253162 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0520253167 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780520273498 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0520273494 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780520953970 (ebook)
  • 0520953975 (ebook)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BR 1156.I54 M67 2012
Contents:
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.
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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.

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