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VERNACULAR CATHOLICISM,
VERNACULAR SAINTS

VERNACULAR CATHOLICISM,
VERNACULAR SAINTS

S ELVA J. R AJ ON
B EING C ATHOLIC THE T AMIL W AY

Edited by

REID B. LOCKLIN

Cover: Photo courtesy of Amanda Randhawa, 2003

Published by State University of New York Press, Albany

2017 State University of New York

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Name: Locklin, Reid B., editor.

Title: Vernacular Catholicism, vernacular saints : Selva J. Raj on Being Catholic the Tamil way / edited by Reid B. Locklin.

Description: Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016031429 (print) | LCCN 2016038322 (ebook) | ISBN 9781438465050 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781438465067 (e-book)

Subjects: LCSH: CatholicsIndiaTamil Nadu. | CatholicsSouth India. | Catholic ChurchIndiaTamil Nadu. | Catholic ChurchSouth India. | Tamil Nadu (India)Religious life and customs. | South IndiaReligious life and customs. | Christianity and cultureIndiaTamil Nadu. | Christianity and cultureSouth India. | Christianity and other religionsHinduism. | Raj, Selva J.

Classification: LCC BX1644.2.T36 V45 2017 (print) | LCC BX1644.2.T36 (ebook) | DDC 282/.5482dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016031429

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To the memory of Selva J. Raj (19522008)
and Nancy J. Ellegate (19592015)

Contents

Bindu Madhok

Reid B. Locklin

Amanda Randhawa

Chapter 1
Being Catholic the Tamil Way

Selva J. Raj

P ART I
V ERNACULAR C ATHOLICISM IN C ONTEXT

Chapter 2
The Story of Christianity in Tamil Nadu

Michael Amaladoss, S.J.

Chapter 3
Two Models of Indigenization in South Asian Catholicism: A Critique

Selva J. Raj

Chapter 4
The Ganges, the Jordan, and the Mountain: The Three Strands of Santal Popular Catholicism

Selva J. Raj

P ART II
H EALTH , H EALING , AND F ERTILITY

Chapter 5
Shared Vows, Shared Space, and Shared Deities: Vow Rituals among Tamil Catholics in South India

Selva J. Raj

Chapter 6
Transgressing Boundaries, Transcending Turner: The Pilgrimage Tradition at the Shrine of St. John de Britto

Selva J. Raj

Chapter 7
An Ethnographic Encounter with the Wondrous in a South Indian Catholic Shrine

Selva J. Raj

P ART III
S TATUS AND H UMOR , C OMPETITION AND C OMMUNION

Chapter 8
Public Display, Communal Devotion: Procession at a South Indian Catholic Festival

Selva J. Raj

Chapter 9
Serious Levity at the Shrine of St. Anne in South India

Selva J. Raj

Chapter 10
Dialogue On the Ground: The Complicated Identities and the Complex Negotiations of Catholics and Hindus in South India

Selva J. Raj

P ART IV
B EING C ATHOLIC THE T AMIL W AY : R ESPONSES AND R EFLECTIONS

Chapter 11
Comparative Transgressions: Vernacular Catholicisms in Tamil Nadu and Kerala

Corinne G. Dempsey

Chapter 12
Vernacular Christianities: Tamil Catholics and Tamil Protestants

Eliza F. Kent

Chapter 13
Extending Selva J. Rajs Scholarship to Hindu American Temples: Accommodation, Assimilation, and a Dialogue of Action

Vasudha Narayanan

Chapter 14
Reinventing Classical Indian Dance with or without Indigenous Spirituality in Three Contemporary Secular Continents

Purushottama Bilimoria

Wendy Doniger

Selva J. Raj

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Acknowledgments

This work would not have come to fruition except through the patience and assistance of many colleagues and friends. First and foremost, I offer heartfelt thanks to Bindu Madhok, the estate of Selva J. Raj, and Wendy Doniger for supporting the project when I first proposed it. My gratitude also goes out to Michael Amaladoss, Corinne Dempsey, Eliza Kent, Vasudha Narayanan, and Purushottama Bilimoria for lending their time and expertise to bringing the volume into something approximating the shape Raj intended for it. University of Toronto students Thuwanika Kandasamy and Noreen Ahmed painstakingly transcribed and proofread all of the selected articles to shape the initial manuscript, and Sinead Dunphy proofread the final work several times and created the index. I stand in their debt. Thanks are owed, too, to Amanda Randhawa, who contributed the photographs that appear after all taken during fieldwork she conducted as Rajs research assistant in 2003.

Most of the chapters of this volume were originally published elsewhere, and I am grateful for the opportunity to republish them here. The Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies granted permission to republish two articles: from vol. 21 (2008), Being Catholic the Tamil Way () from the volume South Asian Religions on Display (2008); and Brill granted permission to republish The Tie that Binds from Method and Theory in the Study of Religion , vol. 21 (2009). Full citations for all of these original publications are available in the bibliography.

Finally, I would like to offer a word of gratitude to the editorial and production staff of the State University of New York Press. Jessica Kirschner deserves special mention for her patience, her guidance, and her assiduous effort bringing the manuscript to press. I also appreciate the useful feedback of two anonymous reviewers. Nancy J. Ellegate, well known to many scholars in religious studies as Senior Acquisitions Editor at SUNY Press, had worked closely with Raj on a number of the volumes in which the essays gathered here first appeared. It was Nancy who received Rajs first proposal, and she enthusiastically supported the idea of this volume when I first proposed it to her at a meeting of the American Academy of Religion. Tragically she, like Raj himself, passed away unexpectedly before the project could be brought to completion. I was never privileged to know either Selva or Nancy very well; nevertheless, it seems appropriate to dedicate this volume to both of them together, in recognition of their long collaboration and in gratitude for their respective contributions to the field.

Foreword

As I write this, it has been a little over eight years since Selvas sudden passing in March of 2008. The pain of that tragic occurrence overwhelms me as I collect my thoughts for this foreword which Reid Locklin so kindly invited me to write. Doing so is truly an honor for me, not only because of the deep friendship I shared with Selva over the thirteen years he served as a colleague at Albion College, but especially because of the magnificent human being he was. Selva was like a member of my family: he shared with us not only many family vacations but also daily rituals like dinner every evening for many years. How many countless times in these past seven years my husband, George, our children, Sumita and Vikram, and I have thought of him and mentioned him by name! How many times we have recalled a humorous observation or joke he made, and wiped our tears both laughing and crying from that memory! Indeed, Selva lives on forever in our lives, in our hearts and minds, and in our prayers and stories.

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