Reid B. Locklin is Associate Professor of Christianity and the Intellectual Tradition at St. Michael's College, University of Toronto. He is the author of Spiritual But Not Religious? An Oar Stroke Closer to the Farther Shore and Liturgy of Liberation: A Christian Commentary on Shankara's Upadesasahasri, as well as the coeditor (with Mara Brecht) of Comparative Theology in the Millennial Classroom: Hybrid Identities, Negotiated Boundaries.

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Acknowledgments
Foreword
Bindu Madhok
Editor's Introduction
Reid B. Locklin
Hiding Behind the Lens: Fieldwork and Friendship with Selva J. Raj
Amanda Randhawa
1. Being Catholic the Tamil Way
Selva J. Raj
Part I: Vernacular Catholicism in Context
2. The Story of Christianity in Tamil Nadu
Michael Amaladoss, S.J.
3. Two Models of Indigenization in South Asian Catholicism: A Critique
Selva J. Raj
4. The Ganges, the Jordan, and the Mountain: The Three Strands of Santal Popular Catholicism
Selva J. Raj
Part II: Health, Healing, and Fertility
5. Shared Vows, Shared Space, and Shared Deities: Vow Rituals among Tamil Catholics in South India
Selva J. Raj
6. Transgressing Boundaries, Transcending Turner: The Pilgrimage Tradition at the Shrine of St. John de Britto
Selva J. Raj
7. An Ethnographic Encounter with the Wondrous in a South Indian Catholic Shrine
Selva J. Raj
Part III. Status and Humor, Competition and Communion
8. Public Display, Communal Devotion: Procession at a South Indian Catholic Festival
Selva J. Raj
9. Serious Levity at the Shrine of St. Anne in South India
Selva J. Raj
10. Dialogue "On the Ground": The Complicated Identities and the Complex Negotiations of Catholics and Hindus in South India
Selva J. Raj
Part IV. "Being Catholic the Tamil Way": Responses and Reflections
11. Comparative Transgressions: Vernacular Catholicisms in Tamil Nadu and Kerala
Corinne G. Dempsey
12. Vernacular Christianities: Tamil Catholics and Tamil Protestants
Eliza F. Kent
13. Extending Selva J. Raj's Scholarship to Hindu American Temples: Accommodation, Assimilation, and a Dialogue of Action
Vasudha Narayanan
14. Reinventing "Classical" Indian Dance with or without Indigenous Spirituality in Three Contemporary "Secular" Continents
Purushottama Bilimoria
Afterword
Wendy Doniger
Postscript: The Tie That Binds
Selva J. Raj
Bibliography
Contributors
Index