To Be Cared For
The Power of Conversion and Foreignness of Belonging in an Indian Slum
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Hardback
£80.00
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 9780520288812
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 26/04/2016
Width: 15.2 cm
Height: 22.9 cm
To Be Cared For offers a unique view into the conceptual and moral world of slum-bound Dalits ("untouchables") in the South Indian city of Chennai. Focusing on the decision by many women to embrace locally specific forms of Pentecostal Christianity, Nathaniel Roberts challenges dominant anthropological understandings of religion as a matter of culture and identity, as well as Indian nationalist narratives of Christianity as a "foreign" ideology that disrupts local communities. Far from being a divisive force, conversion integrates the slum community-Christians and Hindus alike-by addressing hidden moral fault lines that subtly pit residents against one another in a national context that renders Dalits outsiders in their own land."
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments
Terminological Notes
Introduction
1 • Outsiders
2 • Caste, Care, and the Human
3 • Sharing, Caring, and Supernatural Attack
4 • Religion, Conversion, and the National Frame
5 • The Logic of Slum Religion
6 • Pastoral Power and the Miracles of Christ
7 • Salvation, Knowledge, and Suffering
Conclusion
Appendix: Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Forcible Conversion
of Religion Ordinance, 2002
Notes
References
Index
Terminological Notes
Introduction
1 • Outsiders
2 • Caste, Care, and the Human
3 • Sharing, Caring, and Supernatural Attack
4 • Religion, Conversion, and the National Frame
5 • The Logic of Slum Religion
6 • Pastoral Power and the Miracles of Christ
7 • Salvation, Knowledge, and Suffering
Conclusion
Appendix: Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Forcible Conversion
of Religion Ordinance, 2002
Notes
References
Index
"A major contibution to the anthropology of Christianity but also to the wider anthropology of religion as well as gender, class, and postcolonialism." Anthropology Review Database