In religious studies, especially in post-colonial religious studies, we often talk about the Subaltern. The term was coined by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak in her article "Can the Subaltern Speak?" ((Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, “Can the Subaltern Speak?,” in The Post-colonial Studies Reader, ed. Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin, 1995, 526.)) In the article, she suggests that the oppressed can...