The Saint in the Banyan Tree Christianity and Caste Society in India 1st Edition by David Mosse ISBN 0520273494 9780520273498

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ISBN 10: 0520273494

ISBN 13:  9780520273498 

Author: David Mosse

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. 

Table of contents:

Chapter 1: A Jesuit Mission in History
Chapter 2: A Culture of Popular Catholicism
Chapter 3: Christians in Village Society: Caste, Place, and the Ritualization of Power
Chapter 4: Public Worship and Disputed Caste: The Santiyakappar Festival over 150 Years
Chapter 5: Christianity and Dalit Struggle: 1960s to 1980s
Chapter 6: Hindu Religious Nationalism and Dalit Christian Activism
Chapter 7: A Return Visit to Alapuram: Religion and Caste in the 2000s

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