Article 1: Loyola's religious influence around the
world
by Ann Toland Serb - Loyola Magazine, 1987
Anthony Raj , S.J., received a Ph.D. degree
from Loyola this year. He has return to his native India to work
with "untouchables", the lowest social caste in that country,
of which he himself is a member and one of the few to ever have
earned a doctorate. Father Raj has embarked on a life's mission
of exposing and changing the injudtice of the Indian caste style,
and dreams of someday opening a college for "intouchables".
Article 2: CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD
Illustrated weekly of India June 25, 1989
They fled their native faith in quest
of dignity and brotherhood. What they encountered instead was callousness
and discrimination.
A wave of resentment has swept harijan converts to Christianity
in Tamil Nadu. Ignored and humiliated by the upper castes, these
wretched of the earth even allege discrimination at the hands of
the clergy.
K.P. Sunil, who toured the state recently, portrays the sense of
discord that afflicts the Church in Tamil Nadu.
Article 3: Dalit caste Christians have come of
age
Interview: Dalit Indian Priest - Father Antony Raj Perinbam
ASIA FOCUS, September 15, 1990
MADURAI, India-Dalit literally means trampled
upon of crushed. It is a term people from the low castes use to
refer to themselves, instead of terms like 'Untouchable', 'Harijan'
(Children of God) etc., which higher caste Hindus use in reference
to 'dalits'.
Indian Jesuit Father Antony Raj perinbam, 45, is from the dalit
community. His doctorate dissertation at Loyola University, Chicago,
United States, focused on the 'Social Bases of Obedience of the
Untouchables in India'.
Father Antony Raj who is presently researching 'Social Discriminations
against Dalit Christians in Tamilnadu, in Southern India, spoke
to ASIA FOCUS recently about the problems Dalit Christians face.
Article 4: A Dalit Jesuit speaks to the Tamil Church
By Antony Raj - JIVAN January 1992
The DCLM (Dalit Christian Liberation Movement)
is a protest movement fighting for human dignity and justice for
the Dalit Catholics in Tamil Nadu. Dalits form 70 per cent of the
total Catholic population. This movement is by-product of the caste
politics of the Catholic Church.
Article 5: DISCRIMINATION AGAINST DALITS BY CHRISTIANS
by Aruldoss SJ - SAR News: Bombay - 051, September 19-25, 1992
There is discrimination
against dalits within the Christian Church itself in Tamil Nadu,
says a study conduced by Fr Antony Raj SJ, a dalit Jesuit and sociologist.
The study titled DIscrimination
Against Dalit Christians in Tamil Nadu, was started by the jesuits
in 1988. It was published on August 9, 1992, at the Institute of
Development, Education, Action and Studies (IDEAS) Centre Madurai.
Fr. Antony Raj is a former
president of the Dalit Christian Liberation Movement of Tamil Nadu
and Pondicherry. At present, he is the Research Director of Dalit
Research project at the IDEAS Centre, Madurai.
Article 6: L'intouchable, la soutane blanche et
le méditatif
L'évènement du jeudi - juillet 1991 (France)
Pays de violences et
de spiritualités, l'Inde est une des terres d'élection
des jésuites. Mais de quels jésuites ? Ceux qui prêchent
la révolte parmi les leurs, comme Antony Raj ? Ceux qui poursuivent
leur tâche d' éducation des élites dans de grands
collèges au charme néo-colonial, comme ceux de Madras
? Ou ceux qui, tel Ignatus, s'entretiennent avec Dieu loin de toute
préoccupation terrestre, s'éfforçant d'unir
par l'esprit toutes les religions entre elles ?
Article 7: Des chrétiens 'dalits' marginalisés
Pierre de Charentenay s.j., Président du Centre de Sèvres
- Etudes, février 1994 (France)
La situation des dalits
chrétiens est exposée dans une brochure, Children
of a lesser God, DCLM Publication, Madurai,1992, écrit par
le P. Antony Raj, jésuite né en 1944, docteur en sociologie
de l'Université Loyola de Chicago, président du "Dalit
Christian Liberation Movement" de 1989 a 1992.
Article 8: MINDERWERTIGE CHRISTEN IN INDIEN ? -
Kastenlose kampfen fur ihre gleichberechtigung in der Kirche
KM, January 1996 (Germany)
Das Wort 'dalit' aus dem Sanskrit bedeutel 'zerbrochen',
'zerschlagen', 'unterdrückt'. Als Dalits bezeichnen sich seit
der ersten Hälfte dieses Jahrhunderts die 'Unberührbaren'
in Indien. In indischen Kastensystem sind sie als Kastenlose ganz
unten in der gesellschaftlichen Hierarchie angesiedelt. Die Verfassung
vom Jahr 1950 hat zwar die Praxis der Unberührbarkeit verboten.
Tatsächlich werden aber auch heute noch 134 Millionen Inder
wegen ihrer Herkunft als Kastenlose sozial und wirtschaftlich diskriminiert.
Auch die katholische Kirche hat sich als anfällig für
den Virus der Kastendiskriminierung erwiesen. Der südindische
Jesuit Antony Raj hat den Kampf gegen diese Krankheit in der Kirche
aufgenommen. Für die KM sprach mit ihm Martin Maier, Redakteur
der Jesuitenzeitschrift 'Stimmen der Zeit' in München.
Article 9: Die Unberurhrbaren und das Christentum
in Indien
By Martin Maieer SJ,
Sonderabdruck aus den - STIMMEN DER ZEIT - Heft 2, Februar 1996
(Germany)
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