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020			_a9780195647990
028			_a: Savera Book Distributors _b: 4754 Akarshan Bhawan, 23 Ansari Road, Darya Ganj, New Delhi. _c: 22-23/CRB/719 _d: 18/03/2023
082			_a281.630 VIS
100			_aVisvanathan, Susan.
245			_aThe Christians of Kerala _b : history, belief, and ritual among the Yakoba. _c/ Susan Visvanathan.
260			_a, Madras _b: Oxford University Press _c, 1993.
300			_a xiii, 279 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates _b : illustrations, map _c; 23 cm.
365			_b495
520			_aThis elegantly written book explores the practice of Christianity among the Yakoba in the small region of Kerala. Susan Viswanathan uses the categories of time, space, architecture, and the body as a means of identifying the ways in which Hindu, Christian, and Syrian strands have been woven together to form a rich cultural tapestry in the region. The Yakoba, on which this study is based, are divided into two distinct groups--the Orthodox Syrians and the Jacobite Syrians. Viswanathan relates their on-going quarrel over ecclesiastical jurisdiction and the ways in which this quarrel affects Syrian Christian life and experience as a whole. She argues that people's interpretations of Christianity are a very powerful mode of cultural expression and societal flexibility
650			_aChristianisme Inde Kerala
650			_aHinduism
650			_aInterfaith relations
650			_aReligion
700			_aSusan Visvanathan
942			_cBOOK
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