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University of Madras: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IN

2014-05-20 to present | Assistant Professor (School of Philosophy and Religious Thought)
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American Academy of Religion: Atlanta, Georgia, US

2011-01-01 to present | Regular Member
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American Academy of Religion: Atlanta, Georgia, US

2019-01-01 | Member ICC (International Connections Committee)
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University of Madras: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IN

2018-09-05 | Best Resarcher's Award 2018
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American Academy of Religion: Atlanta, Georgia, US

2015-01-01 | Collaborative International Research Grant
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University of California Berkeley: Berkeley, CA, US

2008-09-01 to 2009-08-01 | Visiting Scholar (GTU-JSTB)
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Works (30)

Anna-daan in christianity origin, meaning, and varieties

Anna-daan, Food Charity in India: Preaching and Practice
2024 | Book chapter
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2-s2.0-85186287369

Contributors: Ponniah, J.
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Democratization of Indian Christianity: Hegemony, Accessibility, and Resistance

Democratization of Indian Christianity: Hegemony, Accessibility, and Resistance
2024 | Book
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2-s2.0-85192045489

Contributors: Mocherla, A.K.; Ponniah, J.
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Multifunctional Role of Tamil Material Catholicism A Study on the Transnational celebrations of Our Lady of Vēlānkaṉṉi

International Journal of Asian Christianity
2024 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85203067203

Part of ISSN: 25424246 25424238
Contributors: Ponniah, J.; Perry, M.S.
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Democratization of Indian Christianity: Hegemony, Accessibility, and Resistance, edited by James Ponniah and Ashok Kumar Mocherla

International Journal of Asian Christianity
2024-08-27 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2542-4246
Contributors: Daniel Jeyaraj
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Anna-daan in Christianity

Anna-daan, Food Charity in India
2024-01-22 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9781003363996
Contributors: James Ponniah
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Adoption of Caste by Christian and Jewish Communities in India

International Journal of Asian Christianity
2023 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85171656044

Part of ISSN: 25424246 25424238
Contributors: Ponniah, J.
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Relationship Between State and Religion in India: A Sphere of Indifference, Contradictions, or Engagement?

The Palgrave Handbook of Religion and State Volume II: Global Perspectives
2023 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 978-3-031-35609-4
Contributors: Ponniah, James; Holzer, Shannon
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Relationship Between State and Religion in India: A Sphere of Indifference, Contradictions, or Engagement?

The Palgrave Handbook of Religion and State Volume II: Global Perspectives
2023 | Book chapter
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2-s2.0-85196458371

Contributors: Ponniah, J.
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Introduction

Democratization of Indian Christianity
2023-12-12 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9781003426035
Contributors: Ashok Kumar Mocherla; James Ponniah
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The Christian Churches, Democratic Developments, and People at the Margins

Democratization of Indian Christianity
2023-12-12 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9781003426035
Contributors: Sarbeswar Sahoo; James Ponniah
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Jerry L. Martin (ed.), Theology Without Walls: The Transreligious Imperative (London and New York: Routledge, 2020). Pp. xiii + 268. $160 (Hbk) ISBN 9780367028718.

Religious Studies
2023-09 | Journal article
Contributors: James Ponniah
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Book Review: Culture, Religion, and Home-Making in and Beyond South Asia. Edited by James Ponniah.

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
2023-01-30 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2164-6279
Contributors: Lance E. Nelson
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Peter Berger and Sarbeswar Sahoo, eds, Godroads: Modalities of Conversion in India

International Journal of Asian Christianity
2022-08-30 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2542-4246
Contributors: James Ponniah
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Popular religious traditions and shared religious spaces

The Routledge Handbook of Hindu-Christian Relations
2020 | Book chapter
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2-s2.0-85105715516

Contributors: Ponniah, J.
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Popular religious traditions and shared religious spaces

The Routledge Handbook of Hindu–Christian Relations
2020-12-30 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9781003139843
Contributors: James Ponniah
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Culture Religion and Home-making in and Beyond South Asia
2020-09-01 | Book chapter
Contributors: James Ponniah
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Culture Religion and Home-making in and Beyond South Asia

2020-09-01 | Book
Contributors: JAMES PONNIAH
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INTRODUCTION:

Culture Religion and Home-making in and Beyond South Asia
2020-09-01 | Book chapter
Contributors: James Ponniah; Amitha Santiago
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WOMEN MAKE IT WORK:

Culture Religion and Home-making in and Beyond South Asia
2020-09-01 | Book chapter
Contributors: James Ponniah
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Transforming Life-Worlds: In Praise of Kundrakudi Adigalar’s Practical Spirituality

Practical Spirituality and Human Development
2019 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9789811336874
Contributors: James Ponniah
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Richard Fox Young, edited by K Daniel, Mirage: Kāṉal, trans. Subramaniam Jebanesan

International Journal of Asian Christianity
2019-03-29 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2542-4246
Contributors: James Ponniah
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Christian Responses to Repression in India and Sri Lanka: Religious Nationalism, Legal Restriction, and Violence

Under Caesar’s Sword: How Christians Respond to Persecution
2018 | Book chapter
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2-s2.0-85142570788

Contributors: Bauman, C.M.; Ponniah, J.
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Christian Responses to Discrimination and Violence in India and Sri Lanka: Avoidance, Advocacy, and Interfaith Engagement

Review of Faith and International Affairs
2017 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85016245881

Part of ISSN: 19317743 15570274
Contributors: Bauman, C.M.; Ponniah, J.
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Accommodation and Acceptance: An Exploration in Interfaith Relations, written by Ambrose Mong

Exchange
2017-09-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1572-543X
Contributors: James Ponniah
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Christianity and freedom in India: Colonialism, communalism, caste, and violence

Christianity and Freedom: Contemporary Perspectives
2016 | Book chapter
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2-s2.0-85016285584

Contributors: Bauman, C.M.; Ponniah, J.
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Christianity and Freedom in India: Colonialism, Communalism, Caste, and Violence

Christianity and Freedom
2016-02-15 | Book chapter
Contributors: Chad M. Bauman; James Ponniah
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Agency in the Subaltern Encounter of Evil: Subverting the Dominant and Appropriating the Indigenous

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
2016-01-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2164-6279
Contributors: James Ponniah
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Taking the cross and walking from subalternity to modernity

Constructing Indian Christianities: Culture, Conversion and Caste
2014 | Book chapter
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2-s2.0-84955670672

Contributors: Ponniah, J.
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Subaltern Rituals, Modernization and Postmodern Themes

South Asian Review
2009-09 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2573-9476
Contributors: James Ponniah
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Christian Responses to Repression in India and Sri Lanka

Under Caesar's Sword
Book chapter
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