Democratization of Indian Christianity: Hegemony, Accessibility, and Resistance

This book highlights the transformative potential of democratic Church and Christian community in India. In the light of both ongoing, also to some extent foregone, socio-political 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, regional contestations ― and external forces of communalism and majoritarianism confronting Indian Christianity today. Further it underlines the importance of dignity, equality, fraternity, freedom, 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.