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Encyclopedia > Dalit theology

Dalit theology is a branch of Christian theology that emerged among the Dalit caste in India in the 1980s. It shares a number of themes with the liberation theology of the 1960s including a self-identity as a people undergoing Exodus. Dalit theology typically includes the additional viewpoint that Jesus himself was Dalit or outcaste.


External links

  • Dalit Theology: A Historical Appraisal by Rev. George Oommen, Indian Church History Review, Vol. XXXIV, June 2000 (http://www.religion-online.org/cgi-bin/relsearchd.dll/showarticle?item_id=1121)
  • Site offering a summary of Dalit history (http://www.dalitchristians.com/Html/history.htm)

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Dalit Theology therefore, has to give expression to this experience of dalitness of the people and respond positively to their need, which is their main concern--how to earn their daily bread, how to overcome their life situations of oppression, poverty, suffering, injustice, illiteracy, and denial of identity; in short a question of survival.
Dalit theology is a systematization of the critical reflection on ortho-praxis which the oppressed generate dialogically in the light of their faith.
Dalit (the term in the Indian context denotes those oppressed on the basis of caste) theology is a theology done by and for the dalits in India.
Dalit (outcaste) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1558 words)
In a few of these extremely traditional villages, Dalits are still not allowed to let their shadows fall upon Brahmins for fear of ritually contaminating them; and they are still required to sweep the ground where they walk to remove the 'contamination' of their footfalls.
Dalit politician and activist B.R. Ambedkar was influential in encouraging many Dalits to convert to Buddhism in order to escape the inequities of the caste system.
Dalits in poor communities may be the target of the frustration and fear of non-Dalits.
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