Dalit Christians in South India
Title | Dalit Christians in South India PDF eBook |
Author | Ashok Kumar Mocherla |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | 205 |
Release | 2020-11-16 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1000226700 |
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.
The Dalit Christians
Title | The Dalit Christians PDF eBook |
Author | John C. B. Webster |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 1102 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Christianity |
ISBN |
Study of Christians belonging to economically backward and socially underprivileged classes in India.
A History of the Dalit Christians in India
Title | A History of the Dalit Christians in India PDF eBook |
Author | John C. B. Webster |
Publisher | Mellen University Press |
Total Pages | 268 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN |
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.
Dalit Theology and Christian Anarchism
Title | Dalit Theology and Christian Anarchism PDF eBook |
Author | Revd Dr Keith Hebden |
Publisher | Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | 196 |
Release | 2013-06-28 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1409481476 |
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.
The Liberative Mission of the Church Among Dalit Christians
Title | The Liberative Mission of the Church Among Dalit Christians PDF eBook |
Author | L. Stanislaus |
Publisher | Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge |
Total Pages | 496 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Church and social problems |
ISBN |
Study, with reference to Tamil Nadu, India.
Struggle for Justice to Dalit Christians
Title | Struggle for Justice to Dalit Christians PDF eBook |
Author | Brojendra Nath Banerjee |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 148 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN |
Relates to Christians belonging to economically backward and socially underprivileged classes in India.
Dalit Consciousness and Christian Conversion
Title | Dalit Consciousness and Christian Conversion PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Jayakumar |
Publisher | Ocms |
Total Pages | 474 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN |
Study conducted among the Nadars and Paraiyas community people at Tirunelveli District of Tamil Nadu, India.