TY - BOOK AU - Bauman,Chad M. AU - Young,Richard Fox TI - Constructing Indian Christianities: culture, conversion, and caste SN - 9780815384274 (hb) AV - BR1155 .C66 2014 U1 - 275.4 B327C 23 PY - 2018/// CY - Oxon PB - Routledge KW - Christianity KW - India KW - Christianity and other religions KW - Kristendom KW - sao KW - fast KW - Interfaith relations KW - Church history KW - Indien N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction / Chad M. Bauman and Richard Fox Young -- Part 1. Who and What is an Indian Christian? 1. Godparents and the Mother's Brother: 'Spiritual' Parenthood among the Latin Catholics of Kerala, South India / Miriam Benteler -- 2. Between Christian and Hindu: Khrist Bhaktas, Catholics and the Negotiation of Devotion in the Banaras Region / Kerry P. C. San Chirico -- 3. Interlocking Caste with Congregation: A Political Necessity for Dalit Christians in Andhra, South India? / Ashok Kumar M. -- Part 2. Whose Religion is Indian Christianity? 4. Late 16th- and Early 17th-Century Contestations of Catholic Christianity at the Mughal Court / Gulfishan Khan -- 5. Authority, Patronage and Customary Practices: Protestant Devotion and the Development of the Tamil Hymn in Colonial South India / Hephzibah Israel -- 6. From Christian Ashrams to Dalit Theology -- or Beyond? An Examination of the Indigenisation/Inculturation Trend within the Indian Catholic Church / Xavier Gravend-Tirole -- 7. Taking the Cross and Walking from Subalternity to Modernity / James Ponniah -- Part 3. Can Christianity be Indian? 8. Times of Trouble for Christians in Muslim and Hindu Societies of South Asia / Georg Pfeffer -- 9. The Interreligious Riot as a Cultural System: Globalisation, Geertz and Hindu-Christian Conflict / Chad M. Bauman -- 10. Studied Silences? Diasporic Nationalism, 'Kshatriya Intellectuals' and the Hindu American Critique of Dalit Christianity's Indianness / Richard Fox Young and Sundar John Boopalan -- Afterword I / Anne E. Monius -- Afterword II / Rowena Robinson ER -