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

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

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

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)

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

Review of The Crisis of Secularism

The essays in this volume address the crisis of secularism in India, a crisis which, the editors suggest, emerged during the Emergency and culminated in the 2002 Gujarat violence

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

Book Review: McDonaldisation, Masala McGospel and Om Economics: Televangelism in Contemporary India

A review of McDonaldisation, Masala McGospel and Om Economics: Televangelism in Contemporary India by Jonathan D. James

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

The Specter of ‘Spirituality’—On the (In)Utility of an Analytical Category

I would like to make it clear that nothing in this article should be taken as a comment, one way or another, on the question of whether spirituality deserves a place in higher education. I consider that issue a distinct one, though no doubt in some ways related to the one I am addressing here, particularly since many of those authors who write about spirituality do so in order to argue for greater institutional and classroom attention to the spiritual lives of college students