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Author Roberts, Nathaniel, 1970- author.

Title To be cared for : the power of conversion and foreignness of belonging in an Indian slum / Nathaniel Roberts.

Publication Info. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
©2016

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series The Anthropology of Christianity ; 20
Anthropology of Christianity ; 20.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Outsiders -- Caste, care, and the human -- Sharing, caring, and supernatural attack -- Religion, conversion, and the national frame -- The logic of slum religion -- Pastoral power and the miracles of Christ -- Salvation, knowledge, and suffering.
Summary "To Be Cared For offers a unique window into the conceptual and moral world of slum-bound Dalits ("untouchables") in the South Indian city of Chennai. The book focuses on the decision by many women to embrace locally specific forms of Pentecostal Christianity. Nathaniel Roberts challenges dominant anthropological understandings of religion as a matter of culture and identity, as well as Indian nationalist narratives of Christianity as a "foreign" ideology that disrupts local communities. Far from being a divisive force, Roberts argues, conversion to Christianity serves to integrate the slum community--Christians and Hindus alike--by addressing hidden moral fault lines in the slum that subtly pit women against one another. Christians and Hindus in the slum are not opposed; they are united in a struggle to survive in a national context that renders Dalits outsiders in their own homes."--Provided by publisher.
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Subject Pentecostal churches -- India -- Chennai.
Pentecostal churches.
India -- Chennai.
Pentecostalism -- India -- Chennai -- History.
Pentecostalism.
History.
Dalit women -- Religious life -- India -- Chennai.
Dalit women.
Religious life.
India.
Pentecostal women -- Religious life -- India -- Chennai.
Pentecostal women.
Slums -- India -- Chennai.
Slums.
Christianity and other religions -- Hinduism.
Christianity and other religions.
Hinduism.
Hinduism -- Relations -- Christianity.
Relations.
Christianity.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
ISBN 9780520963634 (electronic book)
0520963636 (electronic book)
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9780520288829
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