TY - BOOK AU - Roberts,Nathaniel TI - To be cared for: the power of conversion and foreignness of belonging in an Indian slum T2 - The Anthropology of Christianity SN - 9780520288812 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - BX8762.A45 I47 2016 U1 - 289.940 820 954 82 NAT 23 PY - 2016/// CY - Oakland, California PB - University of California Press KW - Pentecostal churches KW - India KW - Chennai KW - Pentecostalism KW - History KW - Dalit women KW - Religious life KW - Pentecostal women KW - Slums KW - Christianity and other religions KW - Hinduism KW - Relations KW - Christianity N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Outsiders -- Caste, care, and the human -- Sharing, caring, and supernatural attack -- Religion, conversion, and the national frame -- The logic of slum religion -- Pastoral power and the miracles of Christ -- Salvation, knowledge, and suffering N2 - "To Be Cared For offers a unique window into the conceptual and moral world of slum-bound Dalits ("untouchables") in the South Indian city of Chennai. The book focuses on the decision by many women to embrace locally specific forms of Pentecostal Christianity. Nathaniel Roberts challenges dominant anthropological understandings of religion as a matter of culture and identity, as well as Indian nationalist narratives of Christianity as a "foreign" ideology that disrupts local communities. Far from being a divisive force, Roberts argues, conversion to Christianity serves to integrate the slum community--Christians and Hindus alike--by addressing hidden moral fault lines in the slum that subtly pit women against one another. Christians and Hindus in the slum are not opposed; they are united in a struggle to survive in a national context that renders Dalits outsiders in their own homes."--Provided by publisher ER -