Singing of Satnam: Blind Simon Patros, Dalit Religious Identity, and Satnami -Christian Music in Chhattisgarh, India

Christianity in every context -- whether western or nonwestern, contemporary or ancient -- emerges as a composite entity, combining elements of the religions and cultures that predate it with aspects of the Christian faith, in whatever form it arrives. There is, of course, nothing distinctly Christian about this process, for just as the expansion of Christianity into India involved the Indianization of Christianity, so too did the growth of Hinduism in Bali entail the Balinization of Hinduism. Other religions follow a similar pattern when they cross cultural boundaries

Book Review: \u3ci\u3eGods in America: Religious Pluralism in the United States.\u3c/i\u3e

Book review of, Gods in America: Religious Pluralism in the United States. by Charles L. Cohen and Ronald L. Numbers, eds

Book Review: \u3cem\u3eThe Saint in the Banyan Tree: Christianity and Caste Society in India\u3c/em\u3e

A book review of The Saint in the Banyan Tree: Christianity and Caste Society in India by David Mosse

Book Review: Beyond Boundaries: Hindu-Christian Relationship and Basic Christian Communities

A review of Beyond Boundaries: Hindu-Christian Relationship and Basic Christian Communities by A. Maria David

Book Review of Indian Religions: Renaissance and Renewal

The eighteen articles in this volume grew from papers delivered at the 2006 Spalding Symposium on Indian Religions. The Symposium featured both newer and more advanced scholars who presented papers on a variety of topics and traditions of India (but especially Hinduism and Buddhism)

Indian Christian Historiography from Below, from Above, and in Between.

The article reviews the books India and the Indianness of Christianity: Essays on Understanding--Historical, Theological, and Bibliographical--in Honor of Eric Frykenberg, edited by Richard Fox Young, part of the Studies in the History of Christian Missions series, and A Social History of Christianity: North-west India Since 1800, by John C.B. Webster

Architects of time: Labouring on digital futures

Drawing on critical analyses of the internet inspired by Gilles Deleuze and the Marxist autonomia movement, this paper suggests a way of understanding the impact of the internet and digital culture on identity and social forms through a consideration of the relationship between controls exercised through the internet, new subjectivities constituted through its use and new labour practices enabled by it. Following Castells, we can see that the distinction between user, consumer and producer is becoming blurred and free labour is being provided by users to corporations. The relationship between digital technologies and sense of community, through their relationship to the future, is considered for its dangers and potentials. It is proposed that the internet may be a useful tool for highlighting and enabling social connections if certain dangers can be traversed. Notably, current remedies for the lack of trust on the internet are questioned with an alternative, drawing on Zygmunt Bauman and Georg Simmel, proposed which is built on community through a vision of a ‘shared network’

Redeeming Indian ‘Christian’ Womanhood?: Missionaries, Dalits, and Agency in Colonial India

This study of dalit Christians in colonial North India suggests that women who converted to Christianity in the region often experienced a contraction of the range of their activities. Bauman analyzes this counterintuitive result of missionary work and then draws on the work of Saba Mahmood and others to interrogate the predilection of feminist historians for agents, rabble-rousers, and gender troublemakers. The article concludes not only that this predilection represents a mild form of egocentrism but also that it prevents historians from adequately analyzing the complexity of factors that motivate and influence human behavior

Review of Missionaries and their Medicine

A review of Missionaries And Their Medicine: A Christian Modernity for Tribal India, by David Hardiman, Manchester University Press, 2008