Playing God - Belief and Ritual in the Muttappan Cult of North Malabar - Theodore Gabriel
Sanskritisation of the Muttappan Cult – A new hermeneutic for the Muttappan legend and ritual
Playing God - Belief and Ritual in the Muttappan Cult of North Malabar - Theodore Gabriel
Theodore Gabriel [+]
University of Gloucestershire
Theodore Gabriel is Honorary Research Fellow in Theology and Religious Studies at the Department of Humanities, University of Gloucestershire and Assistant Professor in Religious Studies at the Queen's University (Canada) Study Centre in Hailsham, East Sussex, England.
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'Sanskritization' is a term coined by the reputed Indian anthropologist M. N. Srinivas, initially in his seminal thesis on the Coorgis of South India. Srinivas wanted to challenge the notion that caste is a rigid and inflexible phenomenon and that it has always remained inviolable and accepted in toto by the people in the lower echelons of the caste hierarchy.