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To Be Cared For

Paperback • 2016 • 1. edition

To Be Cared For

By Nathaniel Roberts

2 Ratings • 5.0 of 5

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About the book

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 d...Show more

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ISBN

9780520288829

Publisher

University of California Press

Published year

2016

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1

Original title

To Be Cared For

Format

Paperback

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