Abstract
Dalit Christians are a socially excluded community within the Catholic Church in India. This is initially due to their collective Dalit social identihj, which continued maintaining caste based disabilities for centuries after conversion. The current paper argues that tlze ongoing caste based disability experience of Dalits in Catholicism is partially due to the failure of the caste dominated Indian Christian theology's constructive response. This is because, Christian theology in India Jailed to reflect and respond to the local spiritual experiences of the ‘majority Dalits’. Whereas the high caste dominated theology was concerned only with ‘Brahminising’ and ‘Sanskritizing’ Catholic spirituality in “purity vs. impurihj paradigm”. Thus, this paper critically examines theological marginalization ofDalit Christians in the Indian Catholic Church.
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