TY  - BOOK
AU  - Henn,Alexander
TI  - Hindu-Catholic encounters in Goa: religion, colonialism, and modernity 
SN  - 9780253012944 (paperback)
AV  - BL2016.G6 H46 2014
U1  - 261.2/45095478 23
PY  - 2014///], c2014
CY  - Bloomington
PB  - Indiana University Press
KW  - Catholic Church
KW  - Relations
KW  - Hinduism
KW  - Postcolonialism
KW  - India
KW  - Goa (State)
KW  - RELIGION / Comparative Religion
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Christianity and other religions
KW  - Syncretism (Religion)
KW  - Goa (India : State)
KW  - Religious life and customs
KW  - Religion
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-205) and index
N2  - "The state of Goa on India's southwest coast was once the capital of the Portuguese-Catholic empire in Asia. When Vasco Da Gama arrived in India in 1498, he mistook Hindus for Christians, but Jesuit missionaries soon declared war on the alleged idolatry of the Hindus. Today, Hindus and Catholics assert their own religious identities, but Hindu village gods and Catholic patron saints attract worship from members of both religious communities. Through fresh readings of early Portuguese sources and long-term ethnographic fieldwork, this study traces the history of Hindu-Catholic syncretism in Goa and considers its implications for our understanding of power, religion, and postcoloniality"--
ER  -