Conversion, Continuity and Change: Lived Christianity in Southern Goa - Rilegato

Robinson, Rowena

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ISBN 10: 0761992294 ISBN 13: 9780761992295

Casa editrice: Sage Pubns Pvt Ltd, 1998

Riassunto

This book examines the processes of conversion, continuity and change in a Goan Catholic community. The analysis shifts from a focus on the people in Goa to a consideration, through ethnographic material, of present-day patterns and modes of persistence and change in a rural Catholic community.

The author discusses individual and collective ritual modes and issues of caste conflict as manifested in church celebrations. The issues explored include kinship and the implication of Catholicism for rules of marriage, ideas about inheritance and gender, reasons for conversion and the clash of traditions. Overall, this book provides a rich analysis of the interplay between Christianity and colonialism as well as the emerging disharmony of tradition in a new social context. It also explores issues relating to the sociological study of convert communities in India in a comparative perspective.

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• Editore: Sage Pubns Pvt Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0761992294
• ISBN 13: 9780761992295
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 240
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