CONTENTS:- Introduction: From Periphery to Centre; Journeying through the Social Worlds of Conversion; Patterns of Internal Differentiations: Class, Status and Gender; Negitiations Traditions: Consonance and Conflict; Kinship Marrige and Inhertance: The Social and Meterial Implecations of Conversion; Cults, Cures and Challenges to the Church; Conclusion.
DESCRIPTION
This important book studies christian communities in India in a comparative anthropological perspective. Rowena Robinson traverses the many worlds of christian traditions accross the country, analytical comparing upper casts and lower casts, tribal and peasent communities the diversity of their experiences and engagements with Christianity.
