Kerala christian sainthood: collisions of culture and worldview in south india
Auteur :
Dempsey, Corinne G.
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press Inc
ISBN :
9780195130287
Date de publication :
15 févr. 2001
Dimensions :
15,2 x 22,9 x 2,3 cm
Poids :
524 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
In this fieldwork-based study, Corinne Dempsey examines the ways in which Kerala Christians construct "hybrid" (Western and Eastern) identity in a postcolonial world. She focuses on their devotion to saints as a particularly useful point of comparison with similar devotion in European Catholicism and the indigenous Hinduism of the region.