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Asian catholicism and the remaking of contemporary families / Michel Chambon and James Ponniah, editors.

Van Pelt Library BX2351 .A753 2026
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Chambon, Michel, editor.
Ponniah, James, 1969- editor.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Catholic families--Asia.
Catholic families.
Catholic Church--Asia.
Catholic Church.
Physical Description:
xiii, 227 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Place of Publication:
Pittsburgh : University of Pitsburgh Press, [2026]
Contents:
Foreword / José Casanova
Part I. Negotiating marriages within an interfaith world
Chapter 1. Catholicism, family, and religious conversion due to marriage in Manggarai, Flores, Eastern Indonesia / Fransiska Widyawati
Chapter 2. Interfaith practices in Eastern Indonesia: Asymmetric marriage alliance, conversions, and Christian-Muslim cohabitation among the Riung of Flores / Nao-Cosme Remon
Chapter 3. Cautioners, defenders of faith, accompaniers: Catholic priests' "living Catholicism" and interfaith marriages in Mumbai, India / Namita N. Manohar
Part II. Clerical consecration as kinship relation
Chapter 4. Being the obedient daughters: The imagination of a Catholic family in Kerala's women's congregations / Anu K. Antony
Chapter 5. The church in their house: A case of naturalizing priestly celibacy in Singapore's Chinese Catholic families / Bryan Benjamin Goh Yu Xian
Chapter 6. Cooking as kinship: Religious familism, heritage foods, and the Jesuit kitchen during pandemic Japan / Allen J. Kim - Part III. Asian Catholic families across generations
Chapter 7. Rejuvenating the symbolic family in crisis: Religion and kinship among the Catholic Amis of Taiwan / Shu-Ling Yeh and Sin Wen Lau
Chapter 8. We are all children of God: Conversion as a re-semantization of the Chinese family structure / Marco Lazzarotti
Chapter 9. Malaysian Tamil Catholic families, saints, and the shifting sands of the sacred storehouse of communal memory / Shanthini Pillai
Chapter 10. Kinship as caste politics: An anthropological study of caste endogamy and marriage among Catholics of South India / Ashok Kumar Mocherla
Notes
References
Contributors
Index.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0822949016
9780822949015
082296788X
9780822967880
OCLC:
1527137921
Publisher Number:
90104681440

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