This work marks the beginning of a new Dalit self-understanding and a new appreciation for the changed landscape of the twenty-first century where the agency of Dalits in the area of theology has exploded the monopoly of caste interpretations in a significant manner. This volume addresses how
despite its proud entry into the post-colonial, politically democratic twenty-first century world, India continues to straddle the structural inequalities and functional hierarchies based on its age-old caste system. It also looks at various Dalit, women, tribal, and other subaltern movements that
struggle against insidious forms of caste-, class-, ethnicity- and religion-based violence and violation. A unique combination of Dalit theology with Dalit feminism and feminist theology, this book brings together the key directions and interests that Dalit Theology has taken in the new century.
Introduction
Section I: Dalit Theology: Introduction, Interrogation and Imagination
1. Sathianathan Clarke: The Heroine's Song in the Marathi Theatre between 1910 and 1920: its Code and its Public
2. M. Deenabandhu: Expanding the Ambit: Dalit Theological Contribution to
Ecumenical Social Thought
3. Peniel Jesudason Rufus Rajkumar: The Diversity and Dialectics of Dalit Dissent and Implications for a Dalit Theology of Liberation
4. Philip Vinod Peacock: In the Beginning is also an End: Expounding and Exploring Theological Resourcefulness of Myths of Dalit
Origins
5. Y.T. Vinayraj: Envisioning a Postmodern Method of Doing Dalit Theology
6. Lalruatkima: TRANS-formative Possibilities: Tribal Formations in Conversation with Dalit Theology
Section II: Foraging Dalit worlds, Freeing Theological Symbols, Forging Dalit Word Visions
7.
Esther Chitra: Jesus and Ambedkar: Exploring Common Loci For Dalit Theology and Dalit Movements
8. Joseph Prabhakar Dayam: Gonthemma Korika: Re-imagining the Divine Feminine in Dalit Christian Theo/alogy
9. Anderson Jeremiah: Exploring New Facets of Dalit Christology in Critical Interaction
with J. D. Crossan's Portrayal of the Historical Jesus
10. Geevarghese Mar Coorilos: Dalit Theology and its Future Course
11. Sathianathan Clarke and Philip Vinod Peacock: Dalits and Religious Conversion: Slippery Identities and Shrewd Identifications
Section II: Dalit Hermeneutics:
New Christian Vedas, Old Gospel, Different Voices
12. Evangeline Anderson-Rajkumar: Turning the body inside out: Contours of Womanist Theology
13. Roja Singh: Bama's Critical-constructive Narratives: Interweaving Resisting Visible Bodies and Emancipatory Audacious Voice as TEXTure for
Dalit Women's freedom
14. Monica Jyotsna Melanchthon: The Servant in the Book of Judith: Interpreting her Silence, Telling her Story
15. Surekha Nelavala: Visibility of Her Sins: Reading the "Sinful Woman" in the Gospel of Luke 7: 36-50 from a Dalit Feminist Perspective
16. Nelvala G.
Prasuna: Caste Branding, Bleeding Body, Building Dalit Womanhood: Touchability of Jesus
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Sathianathan Clarke, a presbyter of the Church of South India, is Professor of Theology, Culture and Mission at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington DC, USA. Deenabandhu Manchala, a pastor in Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church, is Executive Secretary in the programme area of Unity,
Mission, Evangelism and Spirituality, World Council of Churches, Geneva. Philip Vinod Peacock is Lecturer at Bishop's College, Kolkata.
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