Aug 2026· International Journal of Asian Christianity· 0 citations· 14 references
Abstract
Drawing upon the
caṅkam
indigenous literature and the scholarly work of ThaniNayagam, this article constructs a political theology by employing
Tamil humanism and samūka aṟam
as hermeneutical lenses. It aims to contribute to the decentralisation of the genealogy of political theology and to challenge the dominance of the European episteme and coloniality of knowledge production. ThaniNayagam employed indigenous literature as a means of resisting colonial residue in postcolonial nations, advocating for the internationalisation of Tamil Studies during the postcolonial historical period. In Sri Lanka, he not only resisted coloniality but also the state oppression of the Tamils, who are both Hindus and Christians, implicitly opposing imperialism. This paper is an attempt to create a political theology that arises from a multi-religious and multi-cultural environment, uniting Tamils through their shared identity to sustain resistance against oppression.
This article explores the theological and polemical responses of the nineteenth-century Indian Muslim scholar Muḥammad Qāsim Nānautavī (d. 1980) to the emerging Hindu reformist movement Arya Samaj. Through a close reading of his treatise Javāb-i Turkī ba Turkī (A Fitting Reply), this article analyses how Nānautavī crit...
Surveying a range of productions of Shakespeare in the UAE, this article observes a tendency to produce (or tour) the great tyrant tragedies
Macbeth
and
Richard III
to explore the obligations and expectations of good rulership. In the comedies, and in
Romeo and Juliet
, productions seem to highlight what limi...
Employing a wealth of British newspaper articles this book explores the ways in which British attitudes to Rhodesia/Zimbabwe developed from the post-war period through to the early years of independence by reconstructing how the print media portrayed the colony. Using articles from a range of different sources it trace...
This article explores the production of written culture in a remote region of Iberian colonial domains: the Jesuit-Guaraní missions in Paraguay in the eighteenth century. Through an examination of manuscripts, printed books, and chronicles produced in the missions, it seeks to shift the focus of early modern litera...
Guillermo Wilde, Fabián R. Vega· Journal of Early Modern Hist...· 0 citations
This article examines the persistent underdevelopment of Christian-majority regions in Indonesia – Papua, East Nusa Tenggara, Mentawai, and Nias – despite the presence of Christians for over a century. These regions face high poverty, limited education, and weak socio-economic structures. This study concerns not only...
Amos Sukamto· International Journal of Asi...· 0 citations
This article contends that religion remained central to understanding ‘nationalism’ in Britain and India in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This proposition will be demonstrated in concrete form through reading, and cross-reading, three interpretations of the Revolt of 1857: John Kaye’s A History of the S...
R. Govind· Studies in People's History· 0 citations
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