Theologising with the Sacred 'Prostitutes' of South India : Towards an Indecent Dalit Theology /

Theologising with the Sacred 'Prostitutes' of South India : Towards an Indecent Dalit Theology /

"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, hermeneuti...

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Main Author: Parker, Eve Rebecca (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : Brill | Rodopi, 2021.

Series: Currents of Encounter ; 65.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2021, ISBN: 9789004441309.

Subjects:

Devadāsīs > Religious life.
Devadāsīs > India, South.
Liberation theology > India, South.
Marginality, Social > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Marginality, Social > India, South.

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Call Number: BL1237.58.D48

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Table of Contents:
  • Meeting Mathamma: Sacred 'Prostitute' and Mother Goddess
  • What Theology Hides Under the Sari of a Sacred Sex Worker?
  • A Body Theology of the Thrice Marginalised
  • Liberating Scriptures Whores with the Devadāsīs
  • Towards an Indecent Dalit The(a)ology with the Silenced Goddess.