Table of Contents

Introduction
From Periphery to Centre
Journeying through the Social Worlds of Conversion
Patterns of Internal Differentiation
Class, Status and Gender
Negotiating Traditions
Consonance and Conflict
Kinship, Marriage and Inheritance
The Social and Material Implications of Conversion
Cults, Cures and Challenges to the Church
Conclusion

Reviews

`This book is dense with information and well structured. It gives a good overview of the extraordinary variety of Christian life in India and maps out the terrain for further reseearch... any serious student of Christianity in India will find this book very valuable. It ought to be read - however unlikely it is for this to happen - by all those who are contesting the place of Christianity in contemporary India′ - Journal of Contemporary Religion `This volume, which also provides an excellent select bibliography, is therefore to be welcomed by all those interested in the study of Indian Christianity′ - The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute