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A Postcolonial Ethnographic Reading of Migrant/Refugee Faith Communities in Bengaluru

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This chapter underlines that a postcolonial world view is essential to the task of locating the struggles and pains of the ordinary people who have no access to power structures and hierarchical status of the society. From the outset, the author recognizes the challenges involved in linking such a postcolonial reading strategy with ethnographic studies today. In order to meet that challenge, many disciplines and faculties are brought together in this chapter, critically and analytically. The resulting chapter is an attempt to define postcolonial ethnography with the help of three case studies in relation to the pathos of the migrants and refugees from villages and sub-urbans into Bangalore, a metropolitan city. The author’s interest in the faith dimension of the issue brings a focus on how the faith formulations of these migrants and refugees happened in the encountering locale.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Mark Galliford, Voicing a Postcolonial Ethnography, Canberra, National Museum Press, 2002.

  2. 2.

    Devika Chawla, “Can There Be a Postcolonial Ethnography?” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the NCA 96th Annual Convention, Hilton San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.

  3. 3.

    D. Soyini Madison, Critical Ethnography: Method, Ethics, and Performance, London, Sage Publications, 2012.

  4. 4.

    Ibid., 5.

  5. 5.

    J.J. Roy Burman, Ethnography of a Denotified Tribe, New Delhi, Mittal Publications, 2010, 3.

  6. 6.

    Martin Hammersley and Paul Atkinson, Ethnography: Principles in Practice, London, Routledge, 1995, 222.

  7. 7.

    R.S. Sugirtharajah, “Tsunami, Text and Trauma: Hermeneutics After the Asian Tsunami” in Biblical Interpretation 15, 2007, 134.

  8. 8.

    Stephen D. Moore, “A Modest Manifesto for New Testament Literary Criticism: How to Interface with a Literary Studies Field That Is Post-Literary, Post-Theoretical and Post-Methodological”, in Biblical Interpretation 15, 2007, 1.

  9. 9.

    Ibid.

  10. 10.

    Ibid., 5.

  11. 11.

    Ibid., 7.

  12. 12.

    Jeffrey S. Siker, “Historicizing a Racialized Jesus: Case Studies in the “Black Christ,” the “Mestizo Christ,” and White Critique”, in Bible Interpretation 15, 2007, 26.

  13. 13.

    Ibid., 27.

  14. 14.

    Tim Woods, Beginning Postmodernism, New Delhi, Viva Books, 2011, 234.

  15. 15.

    Couze Venn, The Postcolonial Challenge: Towards Alternative Worlds, London, Sage Publications, 2006.

  16. 16.

    Ibid., 4.

  17. 17.

    Daniel Patte, “New Testament Ethics: Envisioning Its Critical Study in This Day and Age”, in Perspectives in Religious Studies 23, 1996, 183.

  18. 18.

    Neil Richardson, John for Today: Reading the Fourth Gospel, London, SCM Press, 2010, 133.

  19. 19.

    Ibid., 62.

  20. 20.

    Elaine M. Wainwright, Shall We Look for Another? A Feminist Rereading of the Matthean Jesus, Maryknoll, Orbis, 1998, 48.

  21. 21.

    Sean Freyne, Galilee and Gospel, Leiden, Brill, 2002, 228.

  22. 22.

    Kamala Ganesh and Usha Thakkar, eds., Culture and the Making of Identity in Contemporary India, New Delhi, Sage, 2005, 13.

  23. 23.

    Neeladri Bhattacharya, “Remaking Custom: The Discourse and Practice of Colonial Codification”, in eds., R. Champaka Lakshmi and S. Gopal, Tradition, Dissent and Ideology: Essays in Honour of Romila Thaper, Delhi, OUP, 2001, 23.

  24. 24.

    Ibid.

  25. 25.

    Thomas Rhys Williams, Cultural Anthropology, New Jersey, Prentice Hall, 1990, xiii.

  26. 26.

    Manuel Castells, The Power of Identity, Oxford, Blackwell Publishers, 1998, 13.

  27. 27.

    Couze Venn, op. cit., 80.

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    C. I. David Joy

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  1. Department of Theology & Religious Studies, University of Chester, Chester, UK

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  2. Mara Foundation, The Hague, The Netherlands

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  3. Lincoln Theological Institute University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

    Raj Bharat Patta

  4. Postcolonial Networks, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Joseph Duggan

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David Joy, C.I. (2019). A Postcolonial Ethnographic Reading of Migrant/Refugee Faith Communities in Bengaluru. In: Dunn, J., Joziasse, H., Patta, R., Duggan, J. (eds) Multiple Faiths in Postcolonial Cities. Postcolonialism and Religions. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17144-5_5

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