ABSTRACT

This chapter reports on the findings of conversations with Madiga Christians in their context and interprets what was found, through exploring the various voices that were captured during the fieldwork research, as participants responded to questions about what parts of the Bible had a profound meaning for them, based on their listening encounters with it. The multiple views and standpoints that were expressed provide an ample opportunity to realize how the Bible has been and is in the minds and hearts of the people in particular ways over time. Through the chapter, the reader comes to understand how these marginal Madiga Christians in a rural setting live with conditions and with the Bible stories which they relate to their own lives in the contexts of their struggles.