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020			_a9781350185296 _qpbk
041			_aeng
082			_a279.54 _bMIL
100			_aMiles-Watson, Jonathan
245		0	_aChristianity and Belonging in Shimla, North india: Sacred Entanglements of A Himalayan Landscape _c/ Jonathan Miles-Watson
260			_bBloomsbury Publishing _c2022 _aLondon
300			_aviii, 183p. _c24 cm.
504			_aindex
520			_aThis book presents a unique ethnographic account of material religion in the Himalayan city of Shimla. Although the mountains that surround the city are a materialisation of divinity, Miles-Watson describes how the city was largely a planned development, with a clear understanding of the mountains as a suitable host for an environment that would invoke the imagined landscapes of ‘home’ for Europeans. Today the Europeans have largely left, but this book shows how the trace of their action remains and nowhere is this more important than in relation to the sacred. The author shows that key to understanding the city is the contemporary material religion of the Christian communities, who are marginal (by profession) yet metaphorically and literally central to the contemporary life of the city.
650			_aAnthropology of Religion and Ritual (Anth)
650			_aChristianity (Rel Studies)
942			_cENGLISH
999			_c528190 _d528190