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Singh, Prince Grenville.

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Human dignity and social visibility: A Christian social ethic to engage India's caste discrimination against Dalits.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Human dignity and social visibility: A Christian social ethic to engage India's caste discrimination against Dalits./
Author:	Singh, Prince Grenville.
Description:	209 p.
Notes:	Chair: Traci West.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-12A.
Subject:	Religion, General. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3199674
ISBN:	9780542463129

Human dignity and social visibility: A Christian social ethic to engage India's caste discrimination against Dalits.
Singh, Prince Grenville.

Human dignity and social visibility: A Christian social ethic to engage India's caste discrimination against Dalits. - 209 p.

Chair: Traci West.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Drew University, 2005.

I begin this project by introducing the Dalits, the so-called untouchables, of India. I then scrutinize their predicament through two Christian moral imperative lenses, human dignity and social visibility. In the first Chapter, I engage the first context of my dissertation: the politics of religious conversion to Christianity. After providing some historical background on conversion I focus on the Anti-conversion Ordinance that was made law in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu in 2003. I discuss the issue of Dalits in relation to religious conversion and why they convert from Hinduism to egalitarian socio-religious systems such as Christianity, Marxism, Sikhism, Islam, and Buddhism. Over the past two decades, Hinduism and politics have meshed in some unprecedented ways, creating a new national phenomenon that affects all minorities, including Dalits.

ISBN: 9780542463129Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017453
Religion, General.

Human dignity and social visibility: A Christian social ethic to engage India's caste discrimination against Dalits.
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520 $a Keeping this national phenomenon in mind, I engage the second context in chapter two: religious/cultural nationalism and the ways it has instigated animosity against Dalits and others minorities who are characterized as foreign and/or deviant. In chapter three, I engage the final context of my research in relation to the reification of pollution in the everyday lives of Dalits, specifically, their work of manual scavenging. Through primary interviews, Dalits, as the experts on the subject matter share their insights on wages, social taboos, health hazards, and their resistance to oppression.
520 $a In chapter four, I discuss how Dalits are systematically stripped of their human dignity and rendered socially invisible by a caste Hindu culture. Here I introduce Dalit theology as an example of a Christian Dalit strategy to counter caste epistemology in Church and society. I also invoke ethical criteria, especially from Martin Luther King, Jr., Tissa Balasuriya, Ramakka, Narayanamma, and Wilson, to help analyze the contexts described in this project. Finally, I offer some concluding comments to summarize the three contexts and relate their significance to formulating a Christian social ethic that engages India's caste discrimination against Dalits.
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