These images of India's Catholic churches, taken by the German photography duo Haubitz+Zoche, are featured in a new exhibition called "Postcolonial Epiphany."
India's architectural "hybridity" -- a term made popular by cultural theorist Homi Bhabha, whose work influenced Haubitz+Zoche -- resulted from the government's urbanization policies, the Art Deco architecture inherited from the colonial era and Indian architectural traditions.
While many of Kerala's churches follow Roman Catholic aesthetic traditions, their designs are often embellished with additional symbols from other religious and popular lore.
