Popular Christianity in India

<p><b>Explores the lived experience of Christianity in India.</b></p><p>Popular Christianity in India explores Indian Christianity as crafted and expressed through lived experience providing an important balance to currently available typically theological studies. Drawing from many disciplines this volume unearths the multifaceted terrain of festivals rituals saints miracle workers missionaries and visionaries in Christian India providing a wonderful glimpse of its richness and complexities. The contributors reveal the ways in which local Christian traditions deftly challenge assumed divisions and power imbalances between East and West Hindu and Christian foreign and indigenous and elite and local expressions. Whether forging complicated religious caste and national identities employing religious hybridity to promote well-being or asserting autonomy within oppressive social and religious structures local Christianity provides a crucial means for its participants to manage their earthly needs and desires.</p>