Margins of faith

[ambily0203]

Hello friends, recently came across a wonderful book:

 

Margins Of Faith: Dalit and Tribal Christianity in India edited by Rowena Robinson and Joseph Marianus Kujur and published by SAGE Publications.

 

 

This volume documents the ethnographies of regionally distinct Dalit and tribal Christian communities, raising new arguments pertaining to the autonomy and distinct identity of these communities, often in adverse social set-ups.

 

Stressing upon the plurality of identities, the essays reject the idea of determining these exclusively on the basis of religion. They also chart the multiple levels of marginality experienced by both Dalit and tribal Christians and analyze how these groups negotiate their former religious faith and practices with Christianity.

 

The book is a response to the urgent need for such studies in social science writings brought to the fore by contemporary political challenges/struggles facing these communities in various parts of India.

 

 

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Edited August 13, 2010 by Qfwfq
kinda spamish actually...

[Vox]

The book is a response to the urgent need for such studies in social science writings brought to the fore by contemporary political challenges/struggles facing these communities in various parts of India.

 

If this specific religion can not survive in that specific location should it then be fading away naturally?

[Moontanman]

It is better to have faith than nothing at all.

 

 

Really? How so? I would say they are both quite the same thing.

[CraigD]

Hello friends, recently came across a wonderful book:

 

Margins Of Faith: Dalit and Tribal Christianity in India edited by Rowena Robinson and Joseph Marianus Kujur and published by SAGE Publications.

 

 

This volume documents the ethnographies of regionally distinct Dalit and tribal Christian communities, raising new arguments pertaining to the autonomy and distinct identity of these communities, often in adverse social set-ups.

 

Stressing upon the plurality of identities, the essays reject the idea of determining these exclusively on the basis of religion. They also chart the multiple levels of marginality experienced by both Dalit and tribal Christians and analyze how these groups negotiate their former religious faith and practices with Christianity.

 

The book is a response to the urgent need for such studies in social science writings brought to the fore by contemporary political challenges/struggles facing these communities in various parts of India.

 

 

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Ambily0203, Your post contains the publisher's description of this book, verbatim.

 

Do you have any original commentary on this subject? If neither you nor anyone else does, this thread will be deleted. Hypography is a science discussion site, not a free advertisement site.

[IDMclean]

Ambily0203, Your post contains the publisher's description of this book, verbatim.

 

Do you have any original commentary on this subject? If neither you nor anyone else does, this thread will be deleted. Hypography is a science discussion site, not a free advertisement site.

August 2010. Hit and run post.

[HydrogenBond]

Faith is the belief in things not seen. Faith can apply to many things, such as innovation or even a happy ending. When a new innovation is just a seed idea, one has to have faith that the idea will pan out or else they will not be able to put in the energy needed to make it so. If you lose faith, you will stop in the present, and not into in the future.

 

Christopher Columbus had faith that he would find a western route to Asia. The critics who lacked faith tried to discourage him and/or make fun of his idea. They were stuck in today and tried to add enough weight to him to make him also stuck. But his faith was very strong so he found a way. Columbus didn't find what he was looking for, but because of his faith, he found something even better. What he found would become the new frontier from which the future would emerge.

 

When it comes to faith in God, this training gives one the energy to push to the future. Like Columbus, it may not turn out the way you originally thought. But it trains the mind to believe in what might be, so those who lack faith can be pulled along. When people lose faith in something they slow and stop to become part of the slag those with faith have to pull to the future. If this weight becomes too heavy, this can effect faith. Often people of any type of faith, are given added weight to carry, in the hopes they become part of the slag. Being part of the slag has less risk, is more socially acceptable and is less likely to end in disappointment. Nevertheless others continue to carry those without faith against their kicking and screaming.