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By Corinne G. Dempsey
Kerala Christian Sainthood is an ethnography-based learn that celebrates the multi-vocal functionality of saints. Drawing on pilgrim anecdotes, shrine practices, reputable hagiographies, and neighborhood lore, writer Corinne Dempsey demonstrates how the company of saints commonly extends past their skill as earthly conduits of fabulous strength. Saintly characters defined during this ebook, hailing from the religiously pluralistic south Indian nation of Kerala, have a tendency not just to the healthiness and happiness of person devotees yet support craft and exhibit the a number of identities and complicated strength kinfolk in their devotional groups as well.
Throughout the research, Dempsey highlights the traditions of Sr. Alphonsa of Bharananganam (1910-1946) and St. George the martyr, figures who replicate the numerous preoccupations of Kerala sainthood. Sr. Alphonsa, local of Kerala and well-known for her lifetime of discomfort and posthumous strength, stands in line to be canonized via the Vatican. St. George, the caped dragon slayer imported to Kerala by way of Syrian retailers and later by means of Portuguese and British colonizers, is at the present time partly debunked by way of Rome. those figures, whereas differing dramatically in temperament, nationality, age of cult, and Vatican status, boast an enormous renowned allure in Kerala's Kottayam district. In studying Sr. Alphonsa and St. George, Dempsey indicates how Kerala's saint traditions replicate devotees' hybrid identities in either colonial and postcolonial times.
This ethnography of Christian sainthood inside a Hindu cultural context, of "foreign" traditions followed via local perform, and of girl sanctity negotiated via patriarchal expectation is poised at a few intersections. Dempsey offers not just a comparative learn of cultures, religions, and worldviews, but in addition a special grounding for modern ethnographic, post-colonial, and feminist concerns.
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21 More troubling to many is that potential religious defection leads to disowning an ancient Keralite tradition, one that adherents understand as virtually indigenous or, at least, not forced upon them by outsiders. This claim to an indigenous Christian heritage often focuses on the belief that St. Thomas the apostle came to India after the death of Christ and converted a large number of Brahmans, who are ancestors of the bulk of today's Syrian Christians. " In essence, many a Kerala Christian's claim to dignity lies not only in a perceived spiritual ascendancy but also in a certain chronological supremacy over Western religious tradition.
20 Kerala Christian Sainthood This first chapter involves, in part, my rising to meet Fr. Acharya's challenge. I will leave until later a more detailed discussion of the ways Hindu culture has left, and continues to leave, an indelible mark on Kerala's Christian traditions. There is ample evidence to suggest that many of Alphonsa's cult practices and beliefs reflect a larger Hindu context. Presently my focus is to examine critically—with the help of Sr. Alphonsa, St. George, and others—the perception that Indian Christianity is or even could be "entirely Romanized" (or, more recently, Anglicized or Americanized) at either the popular or institutional levels.
In other words, although Kerala's Syrian Catholics repeatedly and proudly express stark distinctions between East (us) and West (them), they nonetheless often look westward for institutional guidance and approval, epitomized most strikingly by the Vatican canonization process. Section 2 of this chapter recounts tales of Kerala's St. George cult from the perspective of its precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial history along the Malabar coast. Introduced by the Syrians, reintroduced by the Portuguese and the British, and presently up for debate in the Vatican, the St.