Dalit religion

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ID4299849
AuthorsP Sanal Mohan (0000-0002-3057-0392, Mahatma Gandhi University), Joel Lee (0000-0003-0855-9856, Williams College, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume16
Issue4
Publication date2022-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueReligion Compass (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1749-8171 • E-ISSN: 1749-8171
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/rec3.12429
OpenAlexW4214537264
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited33

A reckoning with the question of Dalit religion is overdue. The religious worlds of that swath of the population of South Asia subject to the structural violence of "untouchability" have long been misapprehended-a consequence, in large part, of classificatory practices of the colonial and postcolonial state-as a kind of unlettered adjunct to Hinduism. This article assembles scholarly findings of recent years to foreground how Dalits themselves have constructed religious community across time and space. Dalit religion, we argue, is better understood not as a variant of Hinduism but as a critical provocation to all religion in South Asia, as well as a congeries of autonomous regional traditions that, too long obfuscated under colonial and brahminical taxonomies of religion, call out for study on their own terms

Archaeology · Colonialism · Hinduism · Population · Sociology · South asia · State (computer science · Subject (documents · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Computer Science · Demography · Gender Studies · History · Philosophy · Psychology · Race, History, and American Society · Religious studies · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

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