This book highlights the transformative potential of democratic Church and Christian community in India. It will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of religion, especially in the field of church history, theology, South Asian studies, politics and sociology.
This book highlights the transformative potential of democratic Church and Christian community in India. It will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of religion, especially in the field of church history, theology, South Asian studies, politics and sociology.
Ashok Kumar Mocherla is a Yang Scholar (2022-23) in World Christianity at the Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University, USA. He is Associate professor of Sociology at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Indore. His academic interests include sociology of religion, caste, Indian Christianity, missionary medicine, public health, and minority studies. He is the author of Dalit Christians in South India: Caste, Ideology and Lived Religion (Routledge 2020). His research has been funded by the AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council), UK; ICSSR (Indian Council for Social Science Research); and INSA (Indian National Science Academy), New Delhi. James Ponniah is Assistant Professor and Head i/c of Christian Studies at the University of Madras, India. He was formerly the Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy at Jnana Deepa, Pontifical Institute of Philosophy and Religion, Pune. He has authored, edited, or coedited several books: The Dynamics of Folk Religion in Society: Pericentralisation as Deconstruction of Sanskritisation (2011), Dancing Peacock: Indian Insight into Religion and Redevelopment (2010), Identity, Difference and Conflict: Postcolonial Critique (2013), Committed to the Church and the Country (2013), Psycho-Spiritual Mentoring of Adolescents (2019), and Culture, Religion and Home-Making in and beyond South Asia (2020).
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Introduction: Indian Christianity, Categorical Inequalities, and the Need for Democratization 1. Bound by Legacies of Hierarchy: Struggles for a Participatory and Democratic Indian Catholic Church 2. Indian Christianity and the Political: Tracking the Traces 3. The Caste Among the 'Outcaste' Christians 4. The Khrist Bhaktas of Banaras and Indian Catholicism Thirty Years On: What They Might Mean and Why They Matter to Indian Catholics 5. The Link between Autonomy and Democracy: A Study of Catholic Nuns in India 6. Christianity and Democracy: Perspectives from Political Theology 7. The Christian Church, Democratic Rights and People at the Margins: Narratives from Odisha and Rajasthan 8. The Institutionalization of Democractic Mechanisms in the Protestant Church in India: Questions of Resistance, Representation and Women's Leadership 9. Democratization of the Indian Churches through BCCS 10. Changing Power Equations for Women in the Catholic Charismatic Renewal in Goa 11. Food, hierarchy, equality: The Latin Catholics of coastal Kerala, their diet and the idea of democratization 12. Indigenising Democracy, Customizing Religion: Contending Hegemonic Practices and Lived Christianity in Contemporary Nagaland 13. Naming the Unspoken: Domestic Violence and the Church 14. Walls of Discrimination and the Divided Churchyards: Narratives of Domination, Resistance, and Democratic Rights in Tamil Churches 15. Prayers and Everyday Life of Dalit Christians in Kerala
Introduction: Indian Christianity, Categorical Inequalities, and the Need for Democratization 1. Bound by Legacies of Hierarchy: Struggles for a Participatory and Democratic Indian Catholic Church 2. Indian Christianity and the Political: Tracking the Traces 3. The Caste Among the 'Outcaste' Christians 4. The Khrist Bhaktas of Banaras and Indian Catholicism Thirty Years On: What They Might Mean and Why They Matter to Indian Catholics 5. The Link between Autonomy and Democracy: A Study of Catholic Nuns in India 6. Christianity and Democracy: Perspectives from Political Theology 7. The Christian Church, Democratic Rights and People at the Margins: Narratives from Odisha and Rajasthan 8. The Institutionalization of Democractic Mechanisms in the Protestant Church in India: Questions of Resistance, Representation and Women's Leadership 9. Democratization of the Indian Churches through BCCS 10. Changing Power Equations for Women in the Catholic Charismatic Renewal in Goa 11. Food, hierarchy, equality: The Latin Catholics of coastal Kerala, their diet and the idea of democratization 12. Indigenising Democracy, Customizing Religion: Contending Hegemonic Practices and Lived Christianity in Contemporary Nagaland 13. Naming the Unspoken: Domestic Violence and the Church 14. Walls of Discrimination and the Divided Churchyards: Narratives of Domination, Resistance, and Democratic Rights in Tamil Churches 15. Prayers and Everyday Life of Dalit Christians in Kerala
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