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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255344703321

Autore

Vinayarāj Vai. T̲t̲i

Titolo

Dalit Theology after Continental Philosophy / / by Y.T. Vinayaraj

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

3-319-31268-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVIII, 143 p.)

Collana

Postcolonialism and Religions

Disciplina

210

Soggetti

Religion—Philosophy

Religion and sociology

Feminist theology

Liberation theology

Philosophy of Religion

Religion and Society

Feminist Theology

Liberation Theology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- 1. God as the ‘Transcendent Other’: A Critical Engagement with "The Theological Turn” -- 2. Spivak and the ‘Subordinated Other’: The “Third World Turn” in Continental Philosophy -- 3. God, Human, and Creation: Spivak and Postcolonial Theologies -- 4. De-Othering God: Dalit Theology after Continental Philosophy -- Conclusion. .

Sommario/riassunto

This book, steeped in the traditions of both postcolonial theory and Continental philosophy, addresses fundamental questions about God and theology in the postcolonial world. Namely, Y.T. Vinayaraj asks whether Continental philosophies of God and the ‘other’ can attend to the struggles that entail human pain and suffering in the postcolonial context. The volume offers a constructive proposal for a Dalit theology of immanent God or de-othering God as it emerges out of the Lokayata, the Indian materialist epistemology. Engaging with the post-Continental philosophers of immanence such as Gilles Deleuze, Giorgio Agamben, Catherine Malabou, and Jean-Luc Nancy, Vinayaraj explores



the idea of a Dalit theology of God and body in the post-Continental context. The book investigates how there can be a Dalit theology of God without any Christian philosophical baggage of transcendentalism. The study ends with a clarion call for Indian Christian Theology to take a turn toward an immanence that is political and polydoxical in content. Y.T. Vinayaraj teaches Theology at the Dharma Jyoti Vidya Peeth and Nav Jyoti Post-Graduate Research Centre (NJPGRC), New Delhi, India. He holds a PhD from Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, USA, and is an ordained minister of the Mar Thoma Church. His research areas are Continental philosophy, cultural hermeneutics, and Dalit theology. .