This book steeped in the traditions of both postcolonial theory and Continental philosophy
addresses fundamental questions about God and theology in the postcolonial world. Namely Y.T.
Vinayaraj asks whether Continental philosophies of God and the 'other' can attend to the
struggles that entail human pain and suffering in the postcolonial context. The volume offers a
constructive proposal for a Dalit theology of immanent God or de-othering God as it emerges out
of the Lokayata the Indian materialist epistemology. Engaging with the post-Continental
philosophers of immanence such as Gilles Deleuze Giorgio Agamben Catherine Malabou and
Jean-Luc Nancy Vinayaraj explores the idea of a Dalit theology of God and body in the
post-Continental context. The book investigates how there can be a Dalit theology of God
without any Christian philosophical baggage of transcendentalism. The study ends with a clarion
call for Indian Christian Theology to take a turn toward an immanence that is political and
polydoxical in content.
