Syrian Malabar Nasrani

Within the first few pages of the novel, Silence, Shūsaku Endō’s throws his readers head on to the cruelty and darkness that the Christians had faced in 17th century feudal Japan. Father Rodrigues, a Jesuit priest sent to covert the Japanese to the Christian faith, he described the “immersion in the hell of boiling water at Unzen.” the five of priests and two women went through to give up their faith. However, with all the tortures methods used and being immersed in the boil water and being in prison

Being casteist and being Christian is an oxymoronic statement, however, it is a heinous reality in the Indian Church. Even though theologically, Caste and the Church do not go together, casteism is a dominant discourse, a guiding force, and a potent reality in the Indian Church. Patrick Gnanapragasm observes that, “In some quarters, sadly, Christian identity and caste identity seem to converge and play a ‘casteist’ role, which is avowedly anti-Christian.” Caste is a dominant discourse, which discriminates

The Syro-Malabar church is a Catholic Church in full communion with the Pope. It is part of the Chaldean (East Syrian) tradition. It was founded by St. Thomas the Apostle around 52 A.D. and the members were first known as the St. Thomas Christians, but when they spread to India, primarily Kerala, they became known as the Syro-Malabar Catholics. The Syro-Malabar Church uses a slightly different cross than the Roman Catholic Church, and has slight variations in the liturgical calendar. There are currently

The Indian caste system describes the system of social stratification and social restrictions in India in which social classes are defined by thousands of endogamous hereditary groups, often termed jātis or castes. Within a jāti, there exist exogamous groups known as gotras, the lineage or clan of an individual. In a handful of sub-castes such as Shakadvipi, endogamy within a gotra is permitted and alternative mechanisms of restricting endogamy are used (e.g. banning endogamy within a surname). The