The saint in the banyan tree
Subtitle: Christianity and caste society in India
By: David Mosse
Series: The anthropology of Christianity -- 14
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780520253162; 9780520273498; 9780520953970
Subjects: Caste; Religion; Religious aspects; Christianity; Christianity and other religions; Social classes
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and index.
Table of contents: title: A Jesuit mission in history; title: A culture of popular Catholicism; title: Christians in village society: caste, place, and the ritualization of power; title: Public worship and disputed caste: the Santiyakappar Festival over 150 years; title: Christianity and Dalit struggle: 1960s to 1980s; title: Hindu religious nationalism and Dalit Christian activism; title: A return visit to Alapuram: religion and caste in the 2000s.