Dalit Theology after Continental Philosophy

✍ Scribed by Y.T. Vinayaraj (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 159
• Series: Postcolonialism and Religions
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Introduction....Pages 1-12
God as the ‘Transcendent Other’: A Critical Engagement with ‘The Theological Turn’....Pages 13-35
Spivak and the ‘Subordinated Other’: The “Third World Turn” in Continental Philosophy....Pages 37-62
God, Human, and Creation: Spivak and Postcolonial Theologies....Pages 63-86
De-othering God: Dalit Theology After Continental Philosophy....Pages 87-119
Conclusion....Pages 121-126
Back Matter....Pages 127-143

✦ Subjects

Philosophy of Religion;Religion and Society;Feminist Theology;Liberation Theology