Jerry Rosario

Jerry Rosario
Born	(1952-10-02) 2 October 1952 (age 68) Tamil Nadu, India
Occupation	Catholic Priest, writer
Genre	Sociology Philosophy Religious
Notable works	Dhaanam, All the Best, Whisper With Fire, Gaining Momentum

Jerry Rosario (Tamil: ஜெரி ரொசாரியோ; born 2 October 1952) is an Indian Jesuit priest (from the Tamil Nadu area), a theologian, a pastor, spiritual counselor,^[1] a writer, a social activist, a motivator, a civil lawyer, a retreat- facilitator. And also, founder - director of 4 - movements ( DHAANAM for human donations, JEPASA for socio - pastoral animation, IGFA for Ignatian spirituality, and MANITHAM for political analysis and action )

All rolled into one. A revolutionary in this modern world to create a new world.^[2]

He has completed Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Rural Development Science, MA in Political Science, Bachelor of Laws (LLB) in Bangalore, PhD in Political Philosophy with Theology. Now he is serving as a faculty -member of in Dhyana Ashram,Chennai.

Socio-Pastoral Activities[]

Fr. Jerry Rosario has done an 23 years of insertional and involved services among the dalits, rural and slum poor. He has a doctorate in political theology. Other studies and searches have made him a pastor, professor, motivator, spiritual counselor, social analyst, writer and retreat facilitator. He is also a civil lawyer. He is well known to many as "barefoot priest," because he has given up wearing foot wears as a mark of his solidarity with those dalits and poorest who are denied the right to wear it by the caste-ridden traditions. He is a visiting professor in 42 institutions and has lectured in 38 countries so far.

Periyarism[]

Fr. Jerry Rosario has a doctorate in Periyarism. The philosophy of Thanthai E.V.Ramaswamy Periyar, whose political analysis of Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam and Christianity, and had birthed a "Self-respect movement" in Tamil Nadu and in other parts of South India.

Fr. Jerry Rosario once said "Only few get opportunities to break history, but all have the capacity to bend history and Periyar is a man who has not only bent, but broken the history of Tamil Nadu."

Author[]

Books authored by Fr. Jerry Rosario are published through Vaigarai Publications and various other publishing houses.^[3] Dr. Jerry has so far authored 88 books out of which 26 books are in English and 62 are in Tamil. 17 of his books have become text books for Students of various Autonomous Colleges and secular Universities. To date, 9 students have completed their M.Phil researches based on Dr.Jerry’s thoughts and defended their theses in various secular universities. Three have gone ahead with doctorate research on Dr. Jerry's books. One of them , Dr. Sr. Selestin Mary, CTC, had completed and also published her Ph.D. research on "The Societal Analysis of Contemporary World highlighted in the forty five Tamil books of Dr.Jerry ".

Dr.Jerry is also the Founder of the following 4 - MOVEMENTS : JEPASA (Jesuit Pastors of South Asia),^[4] for socio-pastoral animation; DHANAM, for human organ donations; MANITHAM, for political analysis and action; IGFA (Ignatian Family), for cosmic Ignatian spirituality.

Jerry has donated his O-Rh Negative Blood^[5] 207 times as of March 2021.^[6] Having crossed the highest possible number of blood donations as per Indian norms, Jerry stands first among blood donors in India. He has also signed relevant documents, civilly known as 'LIVING WILL', expressing his will to donate his vital organs and body after his death to the needy and also for medical research. In this connection, he has also authored a book named DHAANAM in Tamil. This book elaborates about the different type of human donations, i.e., blood donation, eye donation, stem cell donation, bone and tissue donation, body donation, organ donation. This book has also appeared in English titled, " A PRESENT FOR THE FUTURE ". A WEBSITE, http://www.dhanam.org/, by DHAANAM movement dedicated to the promotion of human donations is being operated from 2016.

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