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"Kerala Christian Sainthood is an ethnography-based study that celebrates the multi-vocal function of saints. Drawing on pilgrim anecdotes, shrine practices, official hagiographies, and regional lore, author Corinne Dempsey demonstrates how the business of saints routinely extends beyond their capacity as earthly conduits of miraculous power. Saintly characters described in this book, hailing from the religiously pluralistic south Indian state of Kerala, tend not only to the health and happiness of individual devotees but help craft and express the multiple identities and complex power relations of their devotional communities as well." "Throughout the study, Dempsey highlights the traditions of Sr. Alphonsa of Bharananganam (1910-1946) and St. George the martyr, two figures who reflect the many preoccupations of Kerala sainthood. Sr. Alphonsa, native of Kerala and famous for her life of suffering and posthumous power, stands in line to be canonized by the Vatican. St. George, the caped dragon slayer imported to Kerala by Syrian merchants and later by Portuguese and British colonizers, is today partially debunked by Rome. These two figures, while differing dramatically in temperament, nationality, age of cult, and Vatican standing, boast a vast popular appeal in Kerala's Kottayam district. In examining Sr. Alphonsa and St. George, Dempsey shows how Kerala's saint traditions reflect devotees' hybrid identities in both colonial and postcolonial times." "This ethnography of Christian sainthood within a Hindu cultural context, of "foreign" traditions adopted by native practice, and of female sanctity negotiated through patriarchal expectation is poised at a number of intersections. Dempsey provides not only a comparative study of cultures, religions, and worldviews, but also a unique grounding for contemporary ethnographic, post-colonial, and feminist concerns."--Jacket

Hinduism --- Christian saints --- Christians --- Christianity and other religions --- Relations --- Christianity --- Cult --- Alphōnsa --- Kerala (India) --- Religious life and customs --- 281.82*1 --- -Christian saints --- -Christianity and other religions --- -Hinduism --- -Religions --- Brahmanism --- Syncretism (Christianity) --- Religions --- Saints --- Canonization --- Religious adherents --- Syro-Malabaarse katholieken --- -Christianity --- History --- Alphōnsa Sister --- -Cult --- -Kerala (India) --- -Religious life and customs --- -Syro-Malabaarse katholieken --- 281.82*1 Syro-Malabaarse katholieken --- -281.82*1 Syro-Malabaarse katholieken --- Relations&delete& --- Alphonsa, --- Afonsa da Imaculada Conceição, --- Alfonsa de la Inmaculada Concepción, --- Alfonsa dell'Immacolata Concezione, --- Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception, --- Alphōnsāmma, --- Anna, --- Annakkuṭṭi, --- Annakutty, --- Muttathupadathu, Alphonsa, --- Kerala, India (State) --- Malankar (India) --- Malankara (India) --- Keralam (India) --- Kīrālā (India) --- Travancore and Cochin (India) --- Religious life and customs. --- Hinduism - Relations - Christianity --- Christian saints - Cult - India - Kerala --- Christians - India - Kerala --- Christianity and other religions - Hinduism --- Alphonsa ab Immaculata Conceptione --- Kerala --- Alphonsa, - Saint, - 1910-1946 - Cult - India - Kerala --- Kerala (India) - Religious life and customs --- Alphonsa, - Saint, - 1910-1946

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Corinne Dempsey offers a study of Hindu and Christian, Indian and Euro/American earthbound religious expressions. She argues that official religious, political, and epistemological systems tend to deny sacred access and expression to the general populace.

Religion. --- Religions --- Relations.

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Looks at perceptions of the miraculous in a variety of contemporary South Asian religious traditions-Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and Christianity.

Miracles. --- God --- Marvelous, The --- Miracle workers --- Spiritual healing --- Supernatural --- South Asia --- Religion.

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Claims of the miraculous are foundational to faith and skepticism, making and breaking religious careers and movements in their wake. Drawing on a variety of South Asian religious traditions—Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Christianity—this book revolves around the theme of conundrum, demonstrating how miracles offer divine proof, tenacious embarrassment, and, in many cases, both. The contributors explore not only how modern miracles are conundrums themselves but also how they make conundrums out of assumed divides between scientific and supernatural realms, modernity and tradition, the West and the rest, and ethnographer and native.

Miracles. --- South Asia