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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.
Contents
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
