Christianity and Belonging in Shimla, North India: Sacred Entanglements of a Himalayan Landscape

Cover page\nHalftitle page\nSeries page\nTitle page\nCopyright page\nDedication\nContents\nList of Figures\nAcknowledgements\n1 Sita’s Red Dress: Introduction\n	i) The mystery of the Cathedral on the Ridge\n	ii) Sacred landscapes and material culture\n	iii) Postcolonial life in the Land of the Gods\n	iv) From academic ancestors to a discordant ethnography\n	v) Sita’s tears: disrupting academic authority\n	vi) Substance of the book\n2 Christ in the Land of the Gods: Context\n	i) Searching for Mount Meru: the sacred centre out there\n	ii) Saffron priests and Christian Sadhus\n	iii) From East to West: the Christian Maharishi\n3 Recreating Mount Olympus: From Shymla to Simla\n	i) Dùthchas, rain and replication\n	ii) White robes and riding dresses: material religion in Simla\n	iii) Living in a ghost town: the materiality of spirits in Shimla\n4 Churchscape, Landscape and Material Religion\n	i) Displaced sacred space and implicit mythology\n	ii) The centre of the spiral: a key myth\n	iii) The materiality of myth in the Shimla Hills\n5 Worshipping with Ghosts: Implicit Mythology in the Shimla Hills1\n	i) Worshipping beyond the boundaries of faith\n	ii) Engaging with the material trace of past worship\n	iii) Churchscapes, material religion and ghosts\n	iv) Ghosts, ancestors and myths of becoming\n	v) Beyond binaries: landscapes, myth and history\n6 Materiality, Heterodoxy and Bonding at The Hidden Cathedral\n	i) Cathedralscapes1\n	ii) In search of The Hidden Cathedral\n	iii) Heterodoxy and harmony in the Cathedralscape\n7 Ritual, Materiality and Skill\n	i) Skilful worship\n	ii) Weaving material religion\n	iv) Becoming one with the landscape\n8 Pipe Organs and Satsang\n	i) Tensions, tears and ruptures in the landscape1\n	ii) Landscapes of group expansion and group maintenance\n	iii) Hindu and Christian or Jesu Bhakti\n9 The Salt in the Stew: Conclusion\n	i) Prophetic anthropology and the wisdom of the hills\n	ii) Christians and the Cathedralscape\n	iii) Salt, sugar and dilithium crystals\n	iv) Developments and future areas for exploration\nNotes\nReferences\nIndex