Kerala Christian Sainthood: Collisions of Culture and Worldview in South India

by Corinne G . Dempsey (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2001

  $196.81

  In this fieldwork-based study, Corinne Dempsey examines the ways in which Kerala Christians construct hybrid (Western and Eastern) identity in a postcolonial world. She focuses on their devotion to saints as a particularly useful point of comparison with similar devotion in European Catholicism and the indigenous Hinduism of the region.