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Author Mosse, David.

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

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 385 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series The anthropology of Christianity ; 14
Anthropology of Christianity ; 14.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Summary Skillfully combining archival research with fieldwork, this book examines the cultural impact of Christianity on Indian religious, social, and political life.
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Subject Christianity -- India, South.
Christianity.
South India.
Tamil (Indic people) -- Religion.
Tamil (Indic people) -- Religion.
Christianity and other religions.
Christianity and other religions.
Social classes -- India, South -- Religious aspects.
Social classes.
Caste -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Caste -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Mosse, David. Saint in the banyan tree. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2012 9780520253162 (DLC) 2012021913 (OCoLC)788263421
ISBN 9780520953970 (electronic book)
0520953975 (electronic book)
9781283613286 (MyiLibrary)
128361328X (MyiLibrary)
9780520253162
0520253167
9780520273498
0520273494