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The Saint in the Banyan Tree

Author : David Mosse
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520953975
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The Saint in the Banyan Tree written by David Mosse and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Saint in the Banyan Tree is a nuanced and historically persuasive exploration of Christianity’s remarkable trajectory as a social and cultural force in southern India. Starting in the seventeenth century, when the religion was integrated into Tamil institutions of caste and popular religiosity, this study moves into the twentieth century, when Christianity became an unexpected source of radical transformation for the country’s ‘untouchables’ (dalits). Mosse shows how caste was central to the way in which categories of ‘religion’ and ‘culture’ were formed and negotiated in missionary encounters, and how the social and semiotic possibilities of Christianity lead to a new politic of equal rights in South India. Skillfully combining archival research with anthropological fieldwork, this book examines the full cultural impact of Christianity on Indian religious, social and political life. Connecting historical ethnography to the preoccupations of priests and Jesuit social activists, Mosse throws new light on the contemporary nature of caste, conversion, religious synthesis, secularization, dalit politics, the inherent tensions of religious pluralism, and the struggle for recognition among subordinated people.

The Saint in the Banyan Tree

Author : David Mosse
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520273494
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Saint in the Banyan Tree written by David Mosse and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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

Psalms of a Saiva Saint

Author : T. Isaac Tambyah
Publisher : Asian Educational Services
ISBN 13 : 9788120600256
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Psalms of a Saiva Saint written by T. Isaac Tambyah and published by Asian Educational Services. This book was released on 1985 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being Selections From The Writings Of Tayumana Swamy, Translated Into English With Introduction And Notes.

The Crescent Arises Over the Banyan Tree

Author : Mitsuo Nakamura
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
ISBN 13 : 981431191X
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book The Crescent Arises Over the Banyan Tree written by Mitsuo Nakamura and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 2012 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previous ed.: Yogyakarta: Gadjah Mada University Press, 1983.

A History of Christian Conversion

Author : David W. Kling
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199910928
Total Pages : 853 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book A History of Christian Conversion written by David W. Kling and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 853 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conversion has played a central role in the history of Christianity. In this first in-depth and wide-ranging narrative history, David Kling examines the dynamic of turning to the Christian faith by individuals, families, and people groups. Global in reach, the narrative progresses from early Christian beginnings in the Roman world to Christianity's expansion into Europe, the Americas, China, India, and Africa. Conversion is often associated with a particular strand of modern Christianity (evangelical) and a particular type of experience (sudden, overwhelming). However, when examined over two millennia, it emerges as a phenomenon far more complex than any one-dimensional profile would suggest. No single, unitary paradigm defines conversion and no easily explicable process accounts for why people convert to Christianity. Rather, a multiplicity of factors-historical, personal, social, geographical, theological, psychological, and cultural-shape the converting process. A History of Christian Conversion not only narrates the conversions of select individuals and peoples, it also engages current theories and models to explain conversion, and examines recurring themes in the conversion process: divine presence, gender and the body, agency and motivation, testimony and memory, group- and self-identity, "authentic" and "nominal" conversion, and modes of communication. Accessible to scholars, students, and those with a general interest in conversion, Kling's book is the most satisfying and comprehensive account of conversion in Christian history to date; this major work will become a standard must-read in conversion studies.

Catholic Shrines in Chennai, India

Author : Thomas Charles Nagy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317169158
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Catholic Shrines in Chennai, India written by Thomas Charles Nagy and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-08-12 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though proportionally small, India's Christians are a populous and significant minority. Focussing on various Roman Catholic churches and shrines located in Chennai, a large city in South India where activities concerning saintal revival and shrinal development have taken place in the recent past, this book investigates the phenomenon of Catholic renewal in India. The author tracks the changing local significance of St. Thomas the Apostle, who according to local legend, was martyred and buried in Chennai and details the efforts of the Church hierarchy in Chennai to bring about a revival of devotion to St. Thomas. Insodoing, the book considers Indian Catholic identity, Indian Christian indigeneity and Hindu nationalism, as well as the marketing of St. Thomas and Catholicism within South India.

Profiling Saints

Author : Elisa Frei
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
ISBN 13 : 3647573566
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Profiling Saints written by Elisa Frei and published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. This book was released on 2023-05-15 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Profiling Saints" follows and expands the papers presented at the homonym online international conference (December 2021), which focused on cultural, theological, artistic, and social aspects of models of sanctity and their importance in the modern world up to the post-revolutionary period. This volume aims thus to shed light on the cultural value of canonizations and models of sanctity as models of Christian perfection, including the role of iconography and artworks, in the broader context of modern, global Catholicism. The topics presented by the authors include veneration to, and canonization and representations of, saint theologians, missionaries, martyrs, mystics, and reformers, men and women. "Profiling Saints" looks at modern sanctity and saints from multidisciplinary perspectives, ranging from liturgy, theology, and Church history up to history of ideas, cultural history, history of emotions, and art history, and contributes to shed light on such a complex phenomenon of Christian history in its modern developments.

Writing Tamil Catholicism

Author : Margherita Trento
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004511628
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Writing Tamil Catholicism written by Margherita Trento and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-05-02 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Writing Tamil Catholicism: Literature, Persuasion and Devotion in the Eighteenth Century, Margherita Trento explores the process by which the Jesuit missionary Costanzo Giuseppe Beschi (1680-1747), in collaboration with a group of local lay elites identified by their profession as catechists, chose Tamil poetry as the social and political language of Catholicism in eighteenth-century South India. Trento analyzes a corpus of Tamil grammars and poems, chiefly Beschi’s Tēmpāvaṇi, alongside archival documents to show how, by presenting themselves as poets and intellectuals, Catholic elites gained a persuasive voice as well as entrance into the learned society of the Tamil country and its networks of patronage. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 840879.

South Asia's Christians

Author : Chandra Mallampalli
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190608900
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book South Asia's Christians written by Chandra Mallampalli and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Asia is home to more than a billion Hindus and half a billion Muslims. But the region is also home to substantial Christian communities, some dating almost to the earliest days of the faith. The stories of South Asia's Christians are vital for understanding the shifting contours of World Christianity, precisely because of their history of interaction with members of these other religious traditions. In this broad, accessible overview of South Asian Christianity, Chandra Mallampalli shows how the faith has been shaped by Christians' location between Hindus and Muslims. Mallampalli begins with a discussion of South India's ancient Thomas Christian tradition, which interacted with West Asia's Persian Christians and thrived for centuries alongside their Hindu and Muslim neighbours. He then underscores efforts of Roman Catholic and Protestant missionaries to understand South Asian societies for purposes of conversion. The publication of books and tracts about other religions, interreligious debates, and aggressive preaching were central to these endeavours, but rarely succeeded at yielding converts. Instead, they played an important role in producing a climate of religious competition, which ultimately marginalized Christians in Hindu-, Muslim-, and Buddhist-majority countries of post-colonial South Asia. Ironically, the greatest response to Christianity came from poor and oppressed Dalit (formerly untouchable) and tribal communities who were largely indifferent to missionary rhetoric. Their mass conversions, poetry, theology, and embrace of Pentecostalism are essential for understanding South Asian Christianity and its place within World Christianity today.

Prayag Tirth and Gaya Tirth

Author : Trilochan Dash
Publisher : Soudamini Dash
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prayag Tirth and Gaya Tirth written by Trilochan Dash and published by Soudamini Dash. This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prayag and Gaya are the two sacred places where ancestral rites are done by the Hindus. This book deals with the Deities worshiped at these places and the significance of Prayag and Gaya as described in the scriptures.

Sutras of Life

Author : Sonali Punj Singh
Publisher : Anecdote Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 8195251838
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (952 download)

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Download or read book Sutras of Life written by Sonali Punj Singh and published by Anecdote Publishing House. This book was released on 2022-07-15 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the book - Sutras of Life About 'Sutras of Life" ‘Sutras of life’ is a guide to bring out the inner you, the purest form of you and customise your success. It would help in excavating the beauty of your life from the layers of blankets on your conscience spread by time and its demands. It has briefed many challenges and solutions which tells how basic values can bring peace and different tastes of life. It also entails the concept of being simple and at the same time protecting and defending yourself. The book will ignite the spark of introspection to the minds of readers and might change the course of their lifestyle towards a peaceful one. Author introduction Sonali Punj Singh, a marketer, blogger and teacher by profession is also a mother of three kids. Her first novel, Sugar and Spice is one of its own kind romantic drama. Not just a dream chaser, she exemplates this being an obstinate one despite life throwing all challenges in her path. Her belief in truthfulness, honesty and loyalty has been costing her high but she has an unshaken trust getting the rewards for being such. Her belief in principles of life remains undaunted. A born motivator, Sonali is a social person who has observed people and many facets of life throughout her journey of good and bad times which she has grasped and inculcated in her writings.

Famous Trees Of India

Author : London Swaminathan
Publisher : Pustaka Digital Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (658 download)

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Download or read book Famous Trees Of India written by London Swaminathan and published by Pustaka Digital Media. This book was released on 2022-08-10 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘FAMOUS TREES OF INDIA’ is my first book in English. It is a collection of articles written by me in the past 11 years. I have covered the trees as described in the Vedas, Upanishads, classical Sanskrit and Tamil literature, folk tales and temple Sthala Puranas. I have got more articles in my blog which would be published as second part. I have lifted some parts from some books for adding my comments, particularly to compare them with the available materials in Tamil and Sanskrit. I thank those original contributors. Hindus considered plants as Gods or the divine representatives on earth. The emphasis is on optimum use of them without destroying them completely. It is also insisted that it is our duty to raise and preserve them for posterity.

Chinese Religion in Malaysia

Author : Chee-Beng Tan
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004357874
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Religion in Malaysia written by Chee-Beng Tan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-02-12 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on long-term ethnographic study, this is the first comprehensive work on the Chinese popular religion in Malaysia. It analyses temples and communities in historical and contemporary perspective, the diversity of deities and Chinese speech groups, religious specialists and temple services, the communal significance of the Hungry Ghosts Festival, the relationship between religion and philanthropy as seen through the lens of such Chinese religious organization as shantang (benevolent halls) and Dejiao (Moral Uplifting Societies), as well as the development and transformation of Taoist Religion. Highly informative, this concise book contributes to an understanding of Chinese migration and settlement, political economy and religion, religion and identity politics as well the significance of religion to both individuals and communities.

The Anthropology of Catholicism

Author : Kristin Norget
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520963369
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The Anthropology of Catholicism written by Kristin Norget and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aimed at a wide audience of readers, The Anthropology of Catholicism is the first companion guide to this burgeoning field within the anthropology of Christianity. Bringing to light Catholicism’s long but comparatively ignored presence within the discipline of anthropology, the book introduces readers to key studies in the field, as well as to current analyses on the present and possible futures of Catholicism globally. This reader provides both ethnographic material and theoretical reflections on Catholicism around the world, demonstrating how a revised anthropology of Catholicism can generate new insights and analytical frameworks that will impact anthropology as well as other disciplines.

Dalit Theology and Christian Anarchism

Author : Revd Dr Keith Hebden
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409481476
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Dalit Theology and Christian Anarchism written by Revd Dr Keith Hebden and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-06-28 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A second generation of emerging Dalit theology texts is re-shaping the way we think of Indian theology and liberation theology. This book is a vital part of that conversation. Taking post-colonial criticism to its logical end of criticism of statism, Keith Hebden looks at the way the emergence of India as a nation state shapes political and religious ideas. He takes a critical look at these Gods of the modern age and asks how Christians from marginalised communities might resist the temptation to be co-opted into the statist ideologies and competition for power. He does this by drawing on historical trends, Christian anarchist voices, and the religious experiences of indigenous Indians. Hebden's ability to bring together such different and challenging perspectives opens up radical new thinking in Dalit theology, inviting the Indian Church to resist the Hindu fundamentalists labelling of the Church as foreign by embracing and celebrating the anarchic foreignness of a Dalit Christian future.

Garland of Love

Author : Anisha Senthilvasan
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 : 163669649X
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book Garland of Love written by Anisha Senthilvasan and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of a girl named Andal who lived long ago in the 8th century AD. Andal is an important figure in human history because she shared her gift of poetry and more with the world. Andal was a true lover and a conservationist of Mother Nature. When my grandmother from India visits our place in the United States, she often plays Andal’s famous poems called Thirupaavai every morning. When my grandmother mentioned that Andal was a young girl when she became a legend, it spiked my curiosity to get to know more about Andal and her story. Her story is fascinating with events occurring in multiple worlds in different time periods! While I was reading about Andal, I discovered the reasons I was so drawn to her: her respect for her father, her acts of kindness to her friends, her love for nature, humans and animals and her constant happiness despite growing up with less. "Annexed with "Thirupaavai" the most popular literary work of Andal transliterated in English with meaning."

Anti-Christian Violence in India

Author : Chad M. Bauman
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501751425
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Anti-Christian Violence in India written by Chad M. Bauman and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does religion cause violent conflict, asks Chad M. Bauman, and if so, does it cause conflict more than other social identities? Through an extended history of Christian-Hindu relations, with particular attention to the 2007–2008 riots in Kandhamal, Odisha, Anti-Christian Violence in India examines religious violence and how it pertains to broader aspects of humanity. Is "religious" conflict sui generis, or is it merely one species of intergroup conflict? Why and how might violence become an attractive option for religious actors? What explains the increase in religious violence over the last twenty to thirty years? Integrating theories of anti-Christian violence focused on politics, economics, and proselytization, Anti-Christian Violence in India additionally weaves in recent theory about globalization and, in particular, the forms of resistance against Western secular modernity that globalization periodically helps to provoke. With such theories in mind, Bauman explores the nature of anti-Christian violence in India, contending that resistance to secular modernities is, in fact, an important but often overlooked reason behind Hindu attacks on Christians. Intensifying the widespread Hindu tendency to think of religion in ethnic rather than universal terms, the ideology of Hindutva, or "Hinduness," explicitly rejects both the secular privatization of religion and the separability of religions from the communities that incubate them. And so, with provocative and original analysis, Bauman questions whether anti-Christian violence in contemporary India is really about religion, in the narrowest sense, or rather a manifestation of broader concerns among some Hindus about the Western sociopolitical order with which they associate global Christianity.