ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the content of Pentecostal discourse in a Dalit slum in northern Chennai, and how it interpolates slum women as subjects of their own transformation. It provides key details about the slum itself, about women's place within it, and about the specificities of slum Pentecostalism as compared to Indian Pentecostalism more generally and as a global religious movement. The chapter examines the way slum Pentecostalism talks about caste-class oppression and the promises of revolutionary justice it offers. It then turns to suffering, and active role it is made to play within the overall spiritual and moral economy of slum life. The chapter attempts something anthropological studies of Christianity seldom do and offers of slum Christian discourse is largely descriptive. It concludes with an account of Pentecostal discourse by turning to the second modality of transformation, the interpersonal.
