Vernacular Catholicism, vernacular saints: Selva J. Raj on "Being Catholic the Tamil way"
Hiding behind the lens : fieldwork and friendship with Selva J. Raj / Amanda Randhawa -- Being Catholic the Tamil way / Selva J. Raj -- Vernacular Catholicism in context. The story of Christianity in Tamil Nadu / Michael Amaladoss, S.J. -- Two models of indigenization in South Asian Catholicism : a critique / Selva J. Raj -- The Ganges, the Jordan, and the mountain : the three strands of Santal popular Catholicism / Selva J. Raj -- Health, healing, and fertility. Shared vows, shared space, and shared deities : vow rituals among Tamil Catholics in South India / Selva J. Raj -- Transgressing boundaries, transcending Turner : the pilgrimage tradition at the Shrine of St. John de Britto / Selva J. Raj -- An ethnographic encounter with the wondrous in a South Indian Catholic shrine / Selva J. Raj -- Status and humor, competition and communion. Public display, communal devotion : procession at a South Indian Catholic festival / Selva J. Raj -- Serious levity at the Shrine of St. Anne in South India / Selva J. Raj -- Dialogue "on the ground" : the complicated identities and the complex negotiations of Catholics and Hindus in South India / Selva J. Raj -- "Being Catholic the Tamil way" : responses and reflections. Comparative transgressions : vernacular Catholicisms in Tamil Nadu and Kerala / Corinne G. Dempsey -- Vernacular Christianities : Tamil Catholics and Tamil Protestants / Eliza F. Kent -- Extending Selva J. Raj's scholarship to Hindu American temples : accommodation, assimilation, and a dialogue of action / Vasudha Narayanan -- Re-inventing "classical" Indian dance with or without indigenous spirituality in three contemporary "secular" continents / Purushottama Bilimoria -- Afterword / Wendy Doniger -- Postscript : the tie that binds / Selva J. Raj