Review of Nathaniel Roberts’ To Be Cared For: The Power of Conversion and the Foreignness of Belonging in an Indian Slum
This article focuses on Roberts’ argument that the religiosity of urban Tamil Dalits, or “slum religion,” transcends Hindu or Christian affiliation. Roberts’ ethnography challenges the dominant discourse surrounding Pentecostal Christianity which asserts that conversion is inevitably divisive, split...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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2019
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Journal of Hindu-Christian studies
Year: 2019, Volume: 32, Pages: 3-8 |
| Review of: | To be cared for (New Delhi : Navayana Publishing, 2016) (Kent, Eliza F.)
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion BK Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations CH Christianity and Society KBM Asia KDG Free church |
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Book review
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Volltext (Verlag) Volltext (doi) |