Selva J. Raj

Karen Pechilis

This valuable resource explores the important role which the minority traditions play in the religious life of the subcontinent.

Tradition and Today

South Asian Religions

William P. Harman

Explores the practice of taking ritual vows in South Asia, a lay tradition prevalent in the region’s religions.

The Ritual Vow in South Asia

Dealing with Deities

Knut A. Jacobsen

The South Asian Christian diaspora is largely invisible in the literature about religion and migration. This is the first comprehensive study of South Asian Christians living in Europe and North America, presenting the main features of these diasporas, their community histories and their religious practices. The authors present a great variety of Christian traditions. The South Asian Christian Diaspora is pluralistic both in terms of religious adherence, cultural tradition and geographical areas of origin. This book gives justice to this pluralism and presents a multiplicity of cultures and traditions typical of the South Asian Christian diaspora. Issues such as the institutionalization of the religious traditions in new countries, identity, the paradox of belonging both to a minority immigrant group and a majority religion, the social functions of rituals, attitudes to language, generational transfer, and marriage and family life, are all discussed.

Invisible Diaspora in Europe and North America

South Asian Christian Diaspora

Corinne G. Dempsey

Explores the lived experience of Christianity in India.

Riting between the Lines

Popular Christianity in India

The South Asian Christian diaspora is largely invisible in the literature about religion and migration. This is the first comprehensive study of South Asian Christians living in Europe and North America, presenting the main features of these diasporas, their community histories and their religious practices. The South Asian Christian diaspora is pluralistic both in terms of religious adherence, cultural tradition and geographical areas of origin. This book gives justice to such pluralism and presents a multiplicity of cultures and traditions typical of the South Asian Christian diaspora. Issues such as the institutionalization of the religious traditions in new countries, identity, the paradox of belonging both to a minority immigrant group and a majority religion, the social functions of rituals, attitudes to language, generational transfer, and marriage and family life, are all discussed.

Explores the significance of levity and humor in South Asian religious traditions.

Selva J. Raj

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