Caste Culture in Indian Church
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Total Pages | : 98 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Caste |
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Total Pages | : 98 |
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Papers presented at a seminar held in Madras in January 1991.
Author | : Chad M. Bauman |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2014-08-07 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1317560272 |
This volume offers insights into the current ‘public-square’ debates on Indian Christianity. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork as well as rigorous analyses, it discusses the myriad histories of Christianity in India, its everyday practice and contestations and the process of its indigenisation. It addresses complex and pertinent themes such as Dalit Indian Christianity, diasporic nationalism and conversion. The work will interest scholars and researchers of religious studies, Dalit and subaltern studies, modern Indian history, and politics.
Author | : David Mosse |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 407 |
Release | : 2012-10 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0520273494 |
“This is a powerful and exciting work. Mosse has produced a work of scholarship that is lively and readable without any loss of subtlety and sophistication. It is a ground-breaking study, of critical importance to the ways we understand religious nationalism and the anthropology of postcolonial experience.”—Susan Bayly, author of Asian Voices in a Postcolonial Age
Author | : Mari Marcel Thekaekara |
Publisher | : Zed Books |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 2003-03 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781842772676 |
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Author | : Martin Fárek |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2017-07-07 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 3319387618 |
This book argues that the dominant descriptions of the ‘caste system’ are rooted in the Western Christian experience of India. Thus, caste studies tell us more about the West than about India. It further demonstrates the imperative to move beyond this scholarship in order to generate descriptions of Indian social reality. The dominant descriptions of the ‘caste system’ that we have today are results of originally Christian themes and questions. The authors of this collection show how this hypothesis can be applied beyond South Asia to the diasporic cultures that have made a home in Western countries, and how the inheritance of caste studies as structured by European scholarship impacts on our understanding of contemporary India and the Indians of the diaspora. This collection will be of interest to scholars and students of caste studies, India studies, religion in South Asia, postcolonial studies, history, anthropology and sociology.
Author | : Murray Milner |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Caste |
ISBN | : 0195084896 |
Status and Sacredness provides a new theory of status and sacral relationships and a provocative reinterpretation of the Indian caste system and Hinduism. Milner shows how in India and many other social contexts status is a key resource, and that sacredness can be usefully understood as a special form of status. By analysing the nature of this resource Milner is able to provide powerful explanations of the key features of the social structure, culture, and religion. He argues against the widely held view that the Indian caste system is best understood as a unique cultural development, demonstrating that many of the seemingly exotic features are variations on themes common to other societies. Milner's analysis is rooted in a new theoretical framework called "resource structuralism" that helps to clarify the nature and significance of power and symbolic capital. The book thus provides a bold new analysis of India, an innovative approach to the analysis of religion, and an important contribution to social theory.
Author | : Duncan B. Forrester |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2017-04-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1351802070 |
This work, first published in 1980, breaks new ground as concerns caste in India. It first examines the nature of caste and its relation to Hinduism and questions in what sense it is possible to speak of Christianity as an egalitarian faith. It then considers some Hindu egalitarian movements and traces the development of ideas on caste among Christian missionaries, examining the relationship between these views and the Revolt of 1857. Close attention is given to changing attitudes on caste, both by missionaries and by Indian Christians, while the influence of nationalism on Christian attitudes to caste and other social questions is further examined. Finally, there is a review of the contemporary state of the question and of the specifically Christian contribution to modern views on caste.
Author | : Kenneth Ballhatchet |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2013-12-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1136816968 |
This is a study of the ways in which changing social expectations among Indian Catholics confronted the Roman Church with new questions, as well as giving fresh urgency to the old problem of the persistence of caste among Christians. Low-caste restiveness prompted different reactions among European missionaries and high-caste Indian priests, and the socio-economic significance of religious conversion became a problem that reached the level of the Apostolic Delegate, and eventually of the Pope. The English brought their social attitudes to India, where they became racial attitudes while retaining their triple functions of supporting authority structures, protecting vested interests and providing psychological reinforcement, Roman Catholic missionaries came from different European countries and brought with them different national attitudes to social mores. A major question asked in this book is how far such national differences were reflected in attitudes to caste, class and sexual behaviour, how similar were the attitudes of Indian Christians, and how far the functions of such attitudes remained constant.
Author | : Michael Bergunder |
Publisher | : Primus Books |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : India |
ISBN | : 9380607210 |
Author | : Chad M. Bauman |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2008-10-07 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0802862764 |
Series: Studies in the History of Christian Missions (SHCM)When a form of Christianity from one corner of the world encounters the religion and culture of another, new and distinctive forms of the faith result. In this volume Chad Bauman considers one such cultural context -- colonial Chhattisgarh in north central India.In his study Bauman focuses on the interaction of three groups: Hindus from the low-caste Satnami community, Satnami converts to Christianity, and the American missionaries who worked with them. Informed by archival snooping and ethnographic fieldwork, the book reveals the emergence of a unique Satnami-Christian identity. As Bauman shows, preexisting structures of thought, belief, behavior, and more altered this emerging identity in significant ways, thereby creating a distinct regional Christianity.