1st Edition

Dalit Christians in South India Caste, Ideology and Lived Religion

By Ashok Kumar Mocherla Copyright 2021
154 Pages
by Routledge India

154 Pages
by Routledge India

154 Pages
by Routledge India

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... Read more

Foreword by Rowena Robinson

Preface

Acknowledgements

 

Introduction 

1. Social History of Christianity and Lutheranism in Andhra

2. Changing Gods: Caste-Class Consciousness and Critical Events of Protest

3. Dalit Christians: Rituals, Religious Celebrations, and Community Politics

4. Identity, Ideology and Dalit Christian Politics

5. Interlocking Caste with Congregation: A Political Necessity for Dalit Christians in Andhra?

Conclusion

 

References

Index

Biography

Ashok Kumar Mocherla is Assistant Professor of Sociology in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Indore, India. His academic interests include sociology of religion, caste, faith healing, and missionary medicine.