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Between the Sea and the Sky: Lived Religion on the Seashore
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Between the Sea and the Sky is an inquiry into the religious world of a traditional fishing community on the Southwest coast of India. It explores the vital role religious and spiritual beliefs play in sustaining people in such a precarious, even deadly occupation. Despite periodic natural calamities and the extreme challenges that accompany their everyday lives, a remarkable spirit of resilience is evident in this coastal community. Using the concept of lived religion, Mathew explores the theological, religious, and spiritual contours of this remarkable community, and draws from them broader insights into the nature of belief.

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An excellent study and analysis of lived religion that integrates the dangerous and risky work of a fishing community of southwest India with their ritualistic Christian faith, centered around the protective warrior saints and their own neithal/Indian spirituality that relates them to and protects them from the challenges of the sea. A very good example of enculturated and contextual theology!

Michael Amaladoss, SJ, Indian theologian and author

To those habituated to theologies from the land, here is a highly fascinating and extremely illuminating volume of theology from the sea. It dwells in the cosmology, life world, and everyday practices of a group of Christian fisherfolk whose vision, values, moods, religious experiences, and motivations are drenched in the vagaries of the nurturing and, at the same time, menacing oceans.

Felix Wilfred, founder and director,
Asian Centre for Cross-Cultural Studies, Chennai

The seaside communities of southern India are home to intensely devoted Catholics who trace their Christian roots to Saint Francis Xavier. The lives of Catholic Mukkuvar fishermen there are oriented to the seaa bounteous, yet fickle, sometimes dangerous source of well-being that gives rise to its own unique cosmology. P. T. Mathew has a keen eye not only for how fisherfolk have been shaped by the sea but also how they have shaped and interpreted Christian faith. This is a great contribution to our understanding of Indian Catholic life.

Thomas M. Landy,
College of the Holy Cross

Lived religion is in the blood and veins of the Catholic fisherfolk of Kerala. It forms their identities, instils them with infinite courage, and provides patience and fortitude to accept the unpredictable outcomes of fishing. Mathews erudite rendering of this complex socioreligious and cultural reality stands out for its deep and nuanced understanding of the fluid and boundless, yet coherent worldview of the fishers, which straddles the sea and sky on every fishing trip.

John Kurien, former vice-chair,
FAO/UN Advisory Committee for Fisheries Research;
founding member, International Collective in Support of Fishworkers

P. T. Mathews splendid new book tells the story of the indigenous fisherfolk of Thiruvananthapuram coast of Kerala. Informed by critical ethnographic and historical scholarship, Between the Sea and the Sky offers a vivid portrait of a peoples resilience rooted in their lived religiona rich interweaving of Indic/neithal religiosity and Iberian Catholicism. In an age of unrelenting globalization, Mathews study of neithal Catholicism reminds us that wisdom is lived in stories that, like the people themselves, remain unique and irreplaceable.

William ONeill, SJ,
University of San Francisco

The book is a fabulous model for doing theology in context. The anthropological, ethnographical, and sociological analysis of the worldview, belief system, ritual practices, and folk traditions of the fisherfolk makes it a unique specimen of scientific research. This volume is highly informative regarding the constituents of lived neithal religiosity, a topic hardly explored by the intellectual world. The striking portrait of fishermens way of overcoming the tsunami of 2004 and Ockhi cyclone of 2017 and of running rescue operations during the Kerala floods of 2018 with their traditional wisdom and daring faith is, in its content as well as recitation, a brilliant pattern of narrative theology.

Vincent Kundukulam, president,
Indian Theological Association

Between the Sea and the Sky is a wonderful work on the life of a fishing community in Kerala in South India, who struggle hard to survive amidst the challenges posed by both nature and the prevailing social conditions. P. T. Mathew shows us how the lived religion of the fisherfolk who spend most of their time between the sea and the sky serves as a vital source of energy to face their life challenges. This well-researched work is a resourceful book for those interested in understanding the organic relationship between religion, sea, and the fisherfolk.

R. Sooryamoorthy,
University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

In an excellently lucid articulation, P. T. Mathew captures the rich experience of neithal Catholicism, the lived religion of the fisherfolk of a South Indian region. In his descriptive and interpretative gaze, the subaltern self of a people living in a periphery comes to life in a poignant way through a religious idiom. It is a must-read for students of religious studies, theology, sociology of religion, ethnography of religion, and the like.

Gnana Patrick,
University of Madras

BETWEEN THE SEA AND THE SKY

LIVED RELIGION ON THE SEASHORE

P. T. Mathew, SJ

Fortress Press

Minneapolis

BETWEEN THE SEA AND THE SKY
Lived Religion on the Seashore

Copyright 2020 Fortress Press, an imprint of 1517 Media. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical articles or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher. Email copyright@1517.media or write to Permissions, Fortress Press, PO Box 1209, Minneapolis, MN 55440-1209.

Cover image: Shifaaz shamoon on Unsplash

Cover design: Joe Reinke

Paperback ISBN: 978-1-5064-5199-2

eBook ISBN: 978-1-5064-5200-5

CONTENTS

LIST OF FIGURES

Fig. 1. Kerala StateLocation Map showing Thiruvananthapuram coast 20

Fig. 2. The Directions 59

Fig. 3. Winds and their Directions 60

Fig. 4. Currents and their Directions 61

Fig. 5. Cakram of St. Michael 81

Fig. 6. Satrusamharamala: The Yantram 82

Fig. 7. Satrusamharamala: The Mantras 83

LIST OF IMAGES

Image 1. Vizhinjam fishing harbor in Thiruvananthapuram 21

Image 2. Vibrant life on the seashore 25

Image 3. Faith and life unite on the seashore 47

Image 4. The image of Cintthira Mta 92

Image 5. Cintthira Mta atop the church 96

A NOTE ON ORTHOGRAPHY

Malayalam, Tamil, and Sanskrit terms in the text are italicized. The local mode of pronunciation has been adopted in the transliteration as far as possible. Diacritical marks follow the usage in the Malayalam Lexicon, published by the University of Kerala (Vol. I, Thiruvananthapuram, 1965). Place names and proper names that are widely used have been retained without diacritical marks.

PREFACE

The sea and the seashore have always been places of fascination and wonderment. The ocean has treasures that are valuable to life on earth yet poorly comprehended. This paradox is equally true of people who live by the ocean and depend on its bounty for their survival. Theirs is a world that is unique, as it is regulated more by what happens in the sea rather than on the landmass. This fascination led me to undertake a preliminary study of the world and the worldview of the coastal people two decades ago. The main purpose was to explore their world in order to understand the factors that enable anyone from the community to venture into the roaring sea on a tiny canoe with a daring spirit that is rarely seen elsewhere. That study, though confined to a coastal hamlet in the southern Indian State of Kerala, gave rich insights into the treasure house of wisdom and know-how that the fisherfolk have inherited through generations. It also unveiled the role of their religious worldview in bolstering their everyday life and occupation. The unpredictability of the ocean and the risk-ridden occupation necessitate an anchoring in a sound belief system and ritual practices.

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