ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book covers the Sri Lankan Tamil Christian Diaspora. The book discusses several cases of Indianization of Catholic rituals among the Tamils in France, and the dilemmas and difficulties involved. It focuses on the immigrants from Kerala who arrived mainly in the 1960s and 1970s, most of whom were nurses. The book reviews the Sri Lankan Tamil Catholic Diaspora in Germany and analyses the remarkable Tamil pilgrimage undertaken every year by Tamil Christian refugees from Sri Lanka to the Madonna in Kevelaer, Germany. It focuses on their immigration history and the various ways devised to transfer religious practice, especially the construction of Tamil Catholic sacred space and sacred time in Norway. The book focuses on the history of Goa and Daman and Diu, the process of conversion, the migration patterns between India, Africa and Portugal and Goans and Damanians living in Portugal.
