Essays on Dalits, Religion, and Liberation
Title | Essays on Dalits, Religion, and Liberation PDF eBook |
Author | A. M. Abraham Ayrookuzhiel |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 346 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Dalits |
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Religion and Dalit Liberation
Title | Religion and Dalit Liberation PDF eBook |
Author | John C. B. Webster |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 168 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN |
Revised version of three lectures on the views of Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar on dalits.
Dalit Theology, Boundary Crossings and Liberation in India
Title | Dalit Theology, Boundary Crossings and Liberation in India PDF eBook |
Author | Jobymon Skaria |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 233 |
Release | 2022-11-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0755642376 |
Jobymon Skaria, an Indian St Thomas Christian Scholar, offers a critique of Indian Christian theology and suggests that constructive dialogues between Biblical and dissenting Dalit voices – such as Chokhamela, Karmamela, Ravidas, Kabir, Nandanar and Narayana Guru – could set right the imbalance within Dalit theology, and could establish dialogical partnerships between Dalit Theologians, non-Dalit Christians and Syrian Christians. Drawing on Biblical and socio-historical resources, this book examines a radical, yet overlooked aspect of Dalit cultural and religious history which would empower the Dalits in their everyday existences.
Untouchable Bodies, Resistance, and Liberation
Title | Untouchable Bodies, Resistance, and Liberation PDF eBook |
Author | Joshua Samuel |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 276 |
Release | 2020-02-25 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9004420053 |
In Untouchable Bodies, Resistance, and Liberation Joshua Samuel engages in constructing an embodied comparative theology of liberation by comparing divine possessions among Hindu and Christian Dalits in South India.
The Problem with Interreligious Dialogue
Title | The Problem with Interreligious Dialogue PDF eBook |
Author | Muthuraj Swamy |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 249 |
Release | 2016-03-24 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1474256422 |
Muthuraj Swamy provides a fresh perspective on the world religions paradigm and 'interreligious dialogue'. By challenging the assumption that 'world religions' operate as essential entities separate from the lived experiences of practitioners, he shows that interreligious dialogue is in turn problematic as it is built on this very paradigm, and on the myth of religious conflict. Offering a critique of the idea of 'dialogue' as it has been advanced by its proponents such as religious leaders and theologians whose aims are to promote inter-religious conversation and understanding, the author argues that this approach is 'elitist' and that in reality, people do not make sharp distinctions between religions, nor do they separate political, economic, social and cultural beliefs and practices from their religious traditions. Case studies from villages in southern India explore how Hindu, Muslim and Christian communities interact in numerous ways that break the neat categories often used to describe each religion. Swamy argues that those who promote dialogue are ostensibly attempting to overcome the separate identities of religious practitioners through understanding, but in fact, they re-enforce them by encouraging a false sense of separation. The Problem with Interreligious Dialogue: Plurality, Conflict and Elitism in Hindu-Christian-Muslim Relations provides an innovative approach to a central issue confronting Religious Studies, combining both theory and ethnography.
Community and Worldview Among Paraiyars of South India
Title | Community and Worldview Among Paraiyars of South India PDF eBook |
Author | Anderson H M Jeremiah |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Total Pages | 225 |
Release | 2013-05-14 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1441178813 |
Demonstrates the inadequacy of the category 'religion' by focusing on the Paraiyars of South India, exploring the complexity of religious belief in marginalized indigenous communities.
Dalit Theology and Dalit Liberation
Title | Dalit Theology and Dalit Liberation PDF eBook |
Author | Revd Dr Peniel Rajkumar |
Publisher | Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | 232 |
Release | 2013-06-28 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 140948064X |
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.