Chapter 2 Chariots of the God/s: Riding the Line Between Hindu and Christian

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1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Foreword: The View from the Other Side: Postpostcolonialism, Religious Syncretism, and Class Conflict xi
5. Introduction: Between, Behind, and Beyond the Lines 1
6. Festivals and Rituals: Forging Hybrid Christian Identities
7. Chariots of the God/s: Riding the Line Between Hindu and Christian 11
8. The Ganges, The Jordan, and the Mountain: The Three Strands of Santal Popular Catholicism 39
9. Past Selves and Present Others: The Ritual Construction of Identity at a Catholic Festival in India 61
10. Transgressing Boundaries, Transcending Turner: The Pilgrimage Tradition at the Shrine of St. John de Britto 85
11. Saints and Wonderworkers: Healing Disease and Division
12. Lessons in Miracles from Kerala, South India: Stories of Three “Christian” Saints 115
13. Finding a Path in Others’ Worlds: The Challenge of Exorcism 141
14. Charismatic Transgressions: The Life and Work of an Indian Catholic Healer 163
15. Visionaries and Missionaries: Redefining Religious Authority
16. Redemptive Hegemony and the Ritualization of Reading 191
17. Missionary Strategy and the Development of the Christian Community: Delhi 1859–1884 211
18. Dalit Theology in Tamil Christian Folk Music: A Transformative Liturgy By James Theophilus Appavoo 233
19. Afterword: Diverse Hindu Responses to Diverse Christianities in India 255
20. Contributors 269
21. Index 273