000			01548 a2200193 4500
020			_a9781409424390
040			_cIIT Kanpur
041			_aeng
082			_a230.04640954 _bH353d
100			_aHebden, Keith
245			_aDalit theology and christian anarchism _cKeith Hebden
260			_bAshgate Publishing _c2011 _aEngland
300			_axiii, 171p
440			_aAshgate new critical thinking in religion, theology and biblical studies
520			_aA second generation of emerging Dalit theology texts is re-shaping the way we think of Indian theology and liberation theology. This book is a vital part of that conversation. Taking post-colonial criticism to its logical end of criticism of statism, Keith Hebden looks at the way the emergence of India as a nation state shapes political and religious ideas. He takes a critical look at these Gods of the modern age and asks how Christians from marginalised communities might resist the temptation to be co-opted into the statist ideologies and competition for power. He does this by drawing on historical trends, Christian anarchist voices, and the religious experiences of indigenous Indians. Hebden's ability to bring together such different and challenging perspectives opens up radical new thinking in Dalit theology, inviting the Indian Church to resist the Hindu fundamentalists labelling of the Church as foreign by embracing and celebrating the anarchic foreignness of a Dalit Christian future.
650			_aDalits -- Religion
650			_aChristian anarchism
942			_cBK
999			_c561164 _d561164