Abraham’s crossings to Egypt and Gerar and its implications for Dalit theology (original) (raw)

2020

Abstract

Dalits are members of the lowest level of the Indian caste system. They are considered unclean, polluting and untouchable. Some of them joined Christian Churches in search of liberation. However, Christian denominations and Indian Christian theology failed them, and Dalit Theology emerged from that historical and theological contexts. However, Dalit theology followed the hermeneutical examples of Latin American and African American theologies and overlooked the subversive voices in Dalit contexts. It placed the hermeneutical examples developed in alien contexts at the centre of Dalit theology as a dominant self and the longing for a liberated-reconciled society connected through mutual partnerships, embedded in the subversive voices, as a dominated self at the periphery of Dalit theology. This dissertation seeks to redress this drawback and proposes that a reading from the margins, concentrating on Dalit religious and cultural foundations, can liberate Dalit theology from its aliena...

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