[PDF] The Dalit Christians eBook

Author : Ashok Kumar Mocherla
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 19,5 MB
Release : 2020-11-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1000226700

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This ethnographic study of Dalit Lutherans in South India examines how the lived religion of Dalit Christians contests the structures of caste domination in rural Andhra. It shows how the emergence of Dalit Christianity generated new religious ideas, patterns, terrains, rituals, and practices that challenge the traditional notions of caste privilege and impact the politics of the region. It highlights the transforming role of Dalit agency in the development of Christianity, which is largely unexplored in the studies of Christian missions and anthropology of Christianity in India. The book looks at the social history of Christianity, critical events of protest, platforms of community politics, caste ideology, and local politics and interlocking of caste with congregation to provide a constructive critique of the dominant paradigm of the Dalit movement, which often treats Dalits as a homogenous social group. It discusses the pragmatic changes within the politics of Dalit Christianity as viewed from the margins of Indian society and incorporated through engagement with political ideologies (from communism to the Ambedkarite movement) and religious belief systems (from Hinduism to Christianity). This volume at the intersection of religion and caste will be an essential read for students and researchers of Dalit studies, political studies, sociology, sociology of religion, religious studies, social justice and exclusion studies, and South Asian studies.

Author : John C. B. Webster
Publisher :
Page : 1102 pages
File Size : 10,83 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Christianity
ISBN :

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Study of Christians belonging to economically backward and socially underprivileged classes in India.

Author : John C. B. Webster
Publisher : Mellen University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 30,46 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Religion
ISBN :

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Between ten and 15 percent of all Dalits in India are Christians. Between two-thirds and three-quarters of all Christians in India are Dalits. Dalit is an Indian term which means broken or oppressed, and refers to those also called untouchables.

Author : L. Stanislaus
Publisher : Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 18,71 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Church and social problems
ISBN :

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Study, with reference to Tamil Nadu, India.

Author : Keith Hebden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 49,56 MB
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1317154967

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A second generation of emerging Dalit theology texts is re-shaping the way we think of Indian theology and liberation theology. This book is a vital part of that conversation. Taking post-colonial criticism to its logical end of criticism of statism, Keith Hebden looks at the way the emergence of India as a nation state shapes political and religious ideas. He takes a critical look at these Gods of the modern age and asks how Christians from marginalised communities might resist the temptation to be co-opted into the statist ideologies and competition for power. He does this by drawing on historical trends, Christian anarchist voices, and the religious experiences of indigenous Indians. Hebden's ability to bring together such different and challenging perspectives opens up radical new thinking in Dalit theology, inviting the Indian Church to resist the Hindu fundamentalists labelling of the Church as foreign by embracing and celebrating the anarchic foreignness of a Dalit Christian future.

Author : Brojendra Nath Banerjee
Publisher :
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 32,16 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Religion
ISBN :

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Relates to Christians belonging to economically backward and socially underprivileged classes in India.

Author : David Mosse
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 19,73 MB
Release : 2012-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0520273494

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“This is a powerful and exciting work. Mosse has produced a work of scholarship that is lively and readable without any loss of subtlety and sophistication. It is a ground-breaking study, of critical importance to the ways we understand religious nationalism and the anthropology of postcolonial experience.”—Susan Bayly, author of Asian Voices in a Postcolonial Age

Author : Peniel Rajkumar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 13,70 MB
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1317154932

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In fulfilling the long-awaited need for a constructive and critical rethinking of Dalit theology this book offers and explores the synoptic healing stories as a relevant biblical paradigm for Dalit theology in order to help redress the lacuna between Dalit theology and the social practice of the Indian Church. Peniel Rajkumar's starting point is that the growing influence of Dalit theology in academic circles is incompatible with the praxis of the Indian Church which continues to be passive in its attitude towards the oppression of the Dalits both within and outside the Church. The theological reasons for this lacuna between Dalit theology and the Church's praxis, Rajkumar suggests, lie in the content of Dalit theology, especially the biblical paradigms explored, which do not offer adequate scope for engagement in praxis.

Author : Samuel Jayakumar
Publisher : Ocms
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 31,95 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Religion
ISBN :

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Study conducted among the Nadars and Paraiyas community people at Tirunelveli District of Tamil Nadu, India.

Author : Chad M. Bauman
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 47,4 MB
Release : 2008-10-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802862764

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Series: Studies in the History of Christian Missions (SHCM)When a form of Christianity from one corner of the world encounters the religion and culture of another, new and distinctive forms of the faith result. In this volume Chad Bauman considers one such cultural context -- colonial Chhattisgarh in north central India.In his study Bauman focuses on the interaction of three groups: Hindus from the low-caste Satnami community, Satnami converts to Christianity, and the American missionaries who worked with them. Informed by archival snooping and ethnographic fieldwork, the book reveals the emergence of a unique Satnami-Christian identity. As Bauman shows, preexisting structures of thought, belief, behavior, and more altered this emerging identity in significant ways, thereby creating a distinct regional Christianity.