Christians of India

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Christians of India

Rowena Robinson

Sage Publications, 2003

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-230) and index

Contents of Works

  • Introduction: from periphery to centre
  • Journeying through the social worlds of conversion
  • Patterns of internal differentiation: class, status and gender
  • Negotiating traditions: consonance and conflict
  • Kinship, marriage and inheritance: the social and material implications of conversion
  • Cults, cures, and challenges to the church

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Description

`This book is dense with information and well structured. It gives a good overview of the extraordinary variety of Christian life in India and maps out the terrain for further reseearch... any serious student of Christianity in India will find this book very valuable. It ought to be read - however unlikely it is for this to happen - by all those who are contesting the place of Christianity in contemporary India' - Journal of Contemporary Religion `This volume, which also provides an excellent select bibliography, is therefore to be welcomed by all those interested in the study of Indian Christianity' - The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Christians of India is an important study on Christian communities in India. Beginning with the authors critical scrutiny on existing literature on Christianity in India, which she feels has suffered from enormous neglect - a neglect that has extended to the study of all non-Hindu communities. The author traces the roots of this neglect to the roots of Sociology and Anthropolgy, from the moment these disciplines came to India.

Table of Contents

Introduction From Periphery to Centre Journeying through the Social Worlds of Conversion Patterns of Internal Differentiation Class, Status and Gender Negotiating Traditions Consonance and Conflict Kinship, Marriage and Inheritance The Social and Material Implications of Conversion Cults, Cures and Challenges to the Church Conclusion

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