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caste and care in india
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chennai
chennai slums
christian culture in india
christianity
christianity as foreign ideology
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dalit women
dalit women christianity
dalit women hindu
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gendered poverty india
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pentecostal christianity
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pentecostalism in india
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religious conversion in indian slums
religious culture in india
religious identity india
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untouchables
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- ISBN 9780520288812
- Weight: 544g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 26 Apr 2016
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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To Be Cared For offers a unique view into the conceptual and moral world of slum-bound Dalits ("untouchables") in the South Indian city of Chennai. Focusing on the decision by many women to embrace locally specific forms of Pentecostal Christianity, Nathaniel Roberts challenges dominant anthropological understandings of religion as a matter of culture and identity, as well as Indian nationalist narratives of Christianity as a "foreign" ideology that disrupts local communities. Far from being a divisive force, conversion integrates the slum community-Christians and Hindus alike-by addressing hidden moral fault lines that subtly pit residents against one another in a national context that renders Dalits outsiders in their own land."
Nathaniel Roberts is Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany.
