Navigating Hindu Family and Christian Belief: An Ethnography of Christian Prayer Meetings in a Kolkata Neighbourhood

The paper is an ethnographic study of an urban Bengali Christian neighbourhood in Kolkata where Hindu women from nearby places attend the two Christian prayer meetings – Catholic and Pentecostal – run by the local preachers of the neighbourhood. Borrowing the theoretical understanding of belief, the...

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Main Author: Dasgupta, Abhijit (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2024
In: International journal of Asian christianity
Year: 2024, Volume: 7, Issue: 2, Pages: 289-312
Further subjects:B Belief
B Neighbourhood
B Kinship
B Hindu women
B Family
B Conversion
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