by Jayachitra Lalitha
Presented for the Stott-Bediako Forum
Rev. Prof. Jayachitra Lalitha, D. Th., is an Ordained Minister of the Church of South India, a New Testament Scholar and a Christian Feminist Theologian. Her scholarship lies at the intersections of the New Testament, Empire Critical Studies, Postcolonial Feminism and the Caste-Gender- sexuality nexus.
Rev. Lalitha prepared a presentation for the Stott-Bediako Forum that explores Postcolonialism, Peace Building, and Conflict Transformation in the context of India, a context in which native women experience a triple colonization based on race, caste, and gender. She explores some of the history of the realities of conflict faced by the indigenous communities in India, examples of resistance to forms of colonialism and caste oppression, and how Jesus’s movement provides a way forward in peace building and conflict transformation.
You can watch Jayachitra Lalitha’s presentation here (with subtitles available in Spanish) and read the full transcript below.
View presentation (habilita subtítulos en español):
One remarkable thing about the Gospels is that each of them is the story of a sustained struggle unto death against dominance by religion, tradition, society, State and empire.
Jayachitra Lalitha
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