Constructing Indian Christianities: Culture, Conversion and Caste

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Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction Part 1: Who and What is an Indian Christian? 1. Godparents and the Mother’s Brother: ‘Spiritual’ Parenthood among the Latin Catholics of Kerala, South India 2. Between Christian and Hindu: Khrist Bhaktas, Catholics and the Negotiation of Devotion in the Banaras Region 3. Interlocking Caste with Congregation: A Political Necessity for Dalit Christians in Andhra, South India? Part 2: Whose Religion is Indian Christianity? 4. Late 16th- and Early 17th-Century Contestations of Catholic Christianity at the Mughal Court 5. Authority, Patronage and Customary Practices: Protestant Devotion and the Development of the Tamil Hymn in Colonial South India 6. From Christian Ashrams to Dalit Theology — or Beyond? An Examination of the Indigenisation/Inculturation Trend within the Indian Catholic Church 7. Taking the Cross and Walking from Subalternity to Modernity Part 3: Can Christianity be Indian? 8. Times of Trouble for Christians in Muslim and Hindu Societies of South Asia 9. The Interreligious Riot as a Cultural System: Globalisation, Geertz and Hindu–Christian Conflict 10. Studied Silences? Diasporic Nationalism, ‘Kshatriya Intellectuals’ and the Hindu American Critique of Dalit Christianity’s Indianness Afterword I Afterword II About the Editors Notes on Contributors Index