Margins of Faith: Dalit and Tribal Christianity in India

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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 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.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Rowena Robinson

Rowena Robinson is Associate Professor in Sociology, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Bombay. She has earlier taught at the University of Delhi. She is author of Conversion, Continuity and Change: Lived Christianity in Southern Goa and Christians of Indian, and editor of Religious Conversion in India: Modex, Motivations and Meanings and Sociology of Religion in India.

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Title
Margins of Faith: Dalit and Tribal Christianity in India
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
9788132104674
Length
viii+299p., 22cm.
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