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

Vows. --- Monasticism and religious orders --- Monastic and religious life --- Oaths --- Vows --- South Asia --- Asia, South --- Asia, Southern --- Indian Sub-continent --- Indian Subcontinent --- Southern Asia --- Orient --- Religious life and customs.

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"Frivolity isn't always frivolous - sometimes it can be sacred. Sacred Play uncovers levity and playfulness in a variety of South Asian traditions where one might least expect to find it: in the heart of ritual. Case studies of Hindu, Muslim, Christian, and Buddhist rituals examine instances of levity that challenge social or religious norms, in which mischievous deities inspire similar behavior among their devotees, and where playful competition incites serious consequences. Sacred Play explores how piety and levity can complement and complicate one another, enriching our understanding of both."--Jacket.

Religion --- Ritual --- Cult --- Cultus --- Liturgies --- Public worship --- Symbolism --- Worship --- Rites and ceremonies --- Ritualism --- South Asia --- Religion. --- #SBIB:39A10 --- #SBIB:39A75 --- Antropologie: religie, riten, magie, hekserij --- Etnografie: Azië

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Christianity --- popular Christianity in India --- rituals --- Indian Christianity --- Christian festivals --- saints --- catse --- national identity --- social and religious structures --- miracle workers --- visionaries --- missionaries

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At the turn of the twenty-first century, Selva J. Raj (1952-2008) was one of the most important scholars of popular Indian Christianity and South Asian religion in North America. Vernacular Catholicism, Vernacular Saints gathers together, for the first time in a single volume, a series of his groundbreaking studies on the distinctively "vernacular" Catholic traditions of Tamil Nadu in southeast India. This collection, which focuses on four rural shrines, highlights ritual variety and ritual transgression in Tamil Catholic practice and offers clues to the ritual exchange, religious hybridity, and dialogue occurring at the grassroots level between Tamil Catholics and their Hindu and Muslim neighbors. Raj also advances a new and alternative paradigm for interreligious dialogue that radically differs from models advocated by theologians, clergy, and other religious elite. In addition, essays by other leading scholars of Indian Christianity and South Asian religions--Michael Amaladoss, Purushottama Bilimoria, Corinne G. Dempsey, Eliza F. Kent, and Vasudha Narayanan--are included that amplify and creatively extend Raj's work.

Catholics --- Christianity and culture --- Christianity and other religions --- South India --- Hinduism --- Raj, Selva J. --- Catholic Church --- Tamil Nadu (India) --- India, South --- Religious life and customs. --- Raj, Selva J