Narrative after Deconstruction
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Overview
Explores the lived experience of Christianity in India. BACKCOVER: 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.Author Biography: Selva J. Raj is Chair and Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Albion College. Corinne G. Dempsey is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and the author of Kerala Christian Sainthood: Collisions of Culture and Worldview in South India.
Synopsis
Punday (English, Purdue U.) carefully picks out a path between the rhetoric that defines deconstruction as a movement past and rejected, and the insistence that all criticism that follows from and attempts to be true to deconstruction must itself be deconstructed in turn. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR