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In Theologising with the Sacred ‘Prostitutes’ of South India, Eve Rebecca Parker theologises with the Dalit women who from childhood have been dedicated to village goddesses and used as ‘sacred’ sex workers. Parker uses ethnographic, anthropological, theological, hermeneutical and historical research and analysis in order to critically engage with the lived religiosity and daily struggles of the dedicated women, known as devadāsīs. In doing so, she works towards an Indecent Dalit Liberation Theology that challenges systems of oppression and cultures of impunity, including casteism, sexism, classism and a history of socio-political and religious marginalisation. The result is a profound theologising of struggle and resistance with the sexual narratives of the oppressed.

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Author:   Eve Rebecca Parker
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   65
Weight:   0.367kg
ISBN:  

9789004450073

ISBN 10:   9004450076
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   18 March 2021
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of Figures Introduction  1 The Context for Theologising: Dalit Self, Gender and Identity  2 Hinduism, the Caste System and the ‘Untouchables’  3 The Touchable Untouchables: From Feminist to Dalit Womanist  4 Developing a Methodology for Theologising with Devadāsīs  5 The Book 1 Meeting Mathamma: Sacred ‘Prostitute’ and Mother Goddess  1 Situating the Devadāsīs  2 The Devadāsī and the Politics of Her Body  3 Dalit Reform, the Devadāsī and Her Devi  4 Dedicated to the Goddess  5 The Mother Goddess Mathamma  6 A Goddess of Pain, Blood and Discharge  7 Sacred Sexuality and the Demand for Decency  8 From Goddess to ‘Slut’: Locating a Devadāsī Theology 2 What Theology Hides Under the Sari of a Sacred Sex Worker?  1 Towards Theologising with Mathamma  2 Indian Theology and the Brahmin Christ  2 The Bhakti Movement: A Subaltern Voice of Resistance  3 The Dalit Revolutionists Impact on Indian Christian Theology  4 Dalit Liberation Theology  5 Jesus Is Dalit: The Dukkha of the Dalits Is One with Christ  6 Dalit Religiosity in Dalit Christian Theological Discourse  7 Gendered Bodies and Multiple Marginalities in Dalit Theology 3 A Body Theology of the Thrice Marginalised  1 Dalit Women Resistance: Ja Bhim!  2 The Voice of Dalit Women in Dalit Theology  3 The Dalit Womanist Christ  4 Dalit Feminist/Womanist Hermeneutics  5 The Missing Voice of the Indecent in Dalit Theology  6 Boundary Crossing with the Sexual Stories of the Oppressed 4 Liberating Scriptures Whores with the Devadāsīs  1 Bringing Metaphors to Life through Dalit Womanist Hermeneutics  2 Through the Lens of the Devadāsī to the Bodies of Oholah and Oholibah  3 Tortured Concubines and ‘Christ the Decent Woman’  4 The Prostitute at Christ’s Feet with Her Matted Hair: A Model of Resistance  5 From Sinful Woman to Prophetic ‘Prostitute’: A Theology from Indecent Bodies  6 Liberating the “Whore” in Dalit Theological Discourse 5 Towards an Indecent Dalit The(a)ology with the Silenced Goddess  1 The Re-Birth of the Goddess in Dalit Theologising  2 A Tali around her Neck and a Bible in her Hand: Indecent Religious Hybridity in the South Indian Village  3 Jesus and the Goddess: Towards a Dalit The(a)ological Christology  4 Jesus in the South Indian Village  5 Towards an Indecent Dalit Christology  6 The Dalit Christa’s Kin-dom to Come  7 From Dalit Theology to Indecent Dalit Theology Bibliography  Primary Sources Index of Subjects Index of Names

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Eve Rebecca Parker, Ph.D. (2016), University of St Andrews, is Postdoctoral Research Associate in Theological Education at Durham University. Her recent publications include The Virgin and the Whore – An Interreligious Challenge for Our Times, The Ecumenical Review (2019).

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