Description
About the Author
Kerry P. C. San Chirico is Associate Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at Villanova University.
Reviews
Kerry San Chirico manages no small feat in bringing the Khrist Bhakta movement, one that eludes ready-made labels, to clarity and life. Rooted in the heart of Hindu India, Catholic priests serve members who take Jesus as their chosen deity and yet largely remain unbaptized. Unraveling historical, social, and religious strands to elucidate the movement's vitality, San Chirico masterfully brings us close, as well, to the stirrings and lives of those who take part. * Corinne Dempsey, author of The Goddess Lives in Upstate New York: Breaking Convention and Making Home at a North American Hindu Temple *
This is an elegantly written study of the Khrist Bhaktas, a devotional movement that exists in the indeterminate space between Hindu bhakti and Catholic charismatic practice, on the one hand, and between the institutional church and the Hindu nationalist state on the other. San Chirico's analysis of this anomalous movement opens a remarkable window on a grassroots process of indigenization and hints at the fate and possible future of Christianity in the north Indian 'Hindi belt' * Ann Taves, Distinguished Professor Emerita of Religious Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara *
San Chirico's work contributes mightily to our understanding of India's rich religious landscape, as well as how we approach it...it is a book that truly is (and this is rarely said of academic works) difficult to put down. * Herman Tull, The Religion *
Book Information
ISBN 9780190067120
Author Kerry P. C. San Chirico
Format Hardback
Page Count 360
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 662g
Dimensions(mm) 164mm * 236mm * 30mm