To Be Cared For: The Power of Conversion and Foreignness of Belonging in an Indian Slum

To Be Cared For offers a unique view into the conceptual and moral world of slum—bound Dalits (“untouchables”) in the South Indian city of Chennai. Focusing on the decision by many women to embrace locally specific forms of Pentecostal Christianity, Nathaniel Roberts challenges dominant anthropological understandings of religion as a matter of culture and identity, as well as Indian nationalist narratives of Christianity as a “foreign” ideology that disrupts local communities. Far from bein...