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Democratization of Indian Christianity: Hegemony, Accessibility, and Resistance

Democratization of Indian Christianity: Hegemony, Accessibility, and Resistance

Hardcover

General ChristianityGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1032007079
ISBN13: 9781032007076
Publisher: Routledge India
Published: Feb 13 2024
Pages: 258
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book highlights the transformative potential of democratic Church and Christian community in India. In the light of both ongoing and, also to some extent, foregone sociopolitical and theological challenges confronting Indian Christianity, this book invokes the need to democratize Indian Christianity in terms of its theology, liturgy, teachings, practices, resources, leadership roles, and institutional power relations/sharing by keeping contemporary social realities of Indian Christians at the core of its approach and discourse. It explores internal challenges - of caste, class, gender, and regional contestations - and external forces of communalism and majoritarianism confronting Indian Christianity today. Further, it underlines the importance of dignity, equality, fraternity, freedom, and responsibility emerging at an organizational level through strong mechanisms of deliberation, decision-making, and execution. A major contribution to religious studies in India, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of religion, especially Christian theology, South Asian studies, politics, and sociology.

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