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Editor's Introduction, Bradley Malkovsky
Editor's Introduction, Bradley Malkovsky
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
The editor's introduction to this issue.
Postcolonial Theological Approaches To Hindu-Christian Studies, Susan Abraham
Postcolonial Theological Approaches To Hindu-Christian Studies, Susan Abraham
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
The disciplinary boundaries of "Hindu-Christian" studies call into question the cultural and political terrain in which it is engendered. As a Christian theologian from India whose encounter with academic Hinduism is as it is taught in the US, my experience is tangential and rather critical in terms of the power issues it raises. Nevertheless, as a theologian of culture I am most interested in how the project of decolonizing theology of the study of religion should take place in the context of the North American academy. Of primary importance here is the dissolution of problematic devaluations. For example, what goes …
Comparative Theology, Comparative Religion, And Hindu-Christian Studies: Ethnography As Method, Kristin Bloomer
Comparative Theology, Comparative Religion, And Hindu-Christian Studies: Ethnography As Method, Kristin Bloomer
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
Concerns that likely inspired today's panel can be traced textually to the beginnings of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and to the earliest writings of what we now call Hinduism. In the field of Hindu-Christian studies, these concerns suggest ethnographic approaches that are not in themselves new, but which borrow in potentially new ways from the methodological tool-boxes of anthropology, theology and the history of religions.
Viewpoint: More Or Deeper? What Should Be Next In (My) Hindu-Christian Study, Francis X. Clooney
Viewpoint: More Or Deeper? What Should Be Next In (My) Hindu-Christian Study, Francis X. Clooney
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
Recently I completed two books in the field of Hindu-Christian studies. The first is The Truth, the Way, the Life: Christian Commentary on the Three Holy Mantras of the Srivaisnava Hindus. This project, for Catherine Cornille's new series of Christian commentaries on the sacred texts of non-Christian traditions, is heavily indebted to Vedanta Desika's 14th century reading of the Tiru Mantra, Dvaya mantra, and Carama Sloka. The second book is Beyond Compare: St. Frances de Sales and Sri Vedanta Desika on Loving Surrender to God, an intensive doulbe reading of Desika's Essence of the Three Holy Mysteries (Srimadrahasyatrayasara) …
In Memoriam: Selva J. Raj (1952-2008), Corinne Dempsey
In Memoriam: Selva J. Raj (1952-2008), Corinne Dempsey
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
Selva J. Raj was a man dedicated to life and work in all its breathtaking complexity. At the time of his untimely death of a heart attack on March 14th, he was the Stanley S. Kresge Endowed Professor and Chair of the Religious Studies Department at Albion College. In addition to tirelessly serving on a lengthy list of campus-wide, national, and international committees and boards, Selva was co-chair of the Comparative Studies in Religion Section of the AAR since 2001; he rekindled the Conference on the Study of Religions of India in 2004 and served as its annual organizer; he …
Can Christians Be Bhaktas? A Sanskritic View From Central India, C. 1850, Richard Fox Young
Can Christians Be Bhaktas? A Sanskritic View From Central India, C. 1850, Richard Fox Young
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
My essay focuses on an undeservedly obscure individual, Somanath Vyas, whose name hardly registers among South Asia scholars. Recently, however, Somanath's writings have elicited interest among Sanskritists in Central India where he lived. Of these, I focus on the Kalandikaprakasa, composed between 1847 and 1850. A major treatise in wissenschaftliches and Sanskrit, it discusses knowledge, scientific and religious, that the author, a traditionally-educated Hindu pandit, deemed worthy of knowing. Importantly, this knowledge included a knowledge of Christianity. For an era rife with interreligious polemics, to advocate on behalf of Christianity as a religion worth knowing in relation to its …
Book Review: "Bourgeois Hinduism, Or The Faith Of The Modern Vedantists", Brian K. Pennington
Book Review: "Bourgeois Hinduism, Or The Faith Of The Modern Vedantists", Brian K. Pennington
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
A review of Bourgeois Hinduism, Or the Faith of the Modern Vedantists by Brian A. Hatcher.
Book Review: "Loving God: Krsna And Christ, A Christian Commentary On The Narada Sutras", Lance E. Nelson
Book Review: "Loving God: Krsna And Christ, A Christian Commentary On The Narada Sutras", Lance E. Nelson
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
A review of Loving God: Krsna and Christ, A Christian Commentary on the Narada Sutras by Daniel P. Sheridan.
Book Review: "Christ Across The Ganges: Hindu Responses To Jesus", Bradley Malkovsky
Book Review: "Christ Across The Ganges: Hindu Responses To Jesus", Bradley Malkovsky
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
A review of Christ Across the Ganges: Hindu Responses to Jesus by Sandy Bharat.
A Retrospective Of Hindu-Christian Studies: Establishment Of The Journal And Formation Of The Society, Harold Coward
A Retrospective Of Hindu-Christian Studies: Establishment Of The Journal And Formation Of The Society, Harold Coward
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
A retrospective look at "How We Do Hindu-Christian Studies" can be had by going through the issues of our journal from 1988 to the present. In the first issue of the journal the approach was described as follows: "Materials selected for publication will be balanced between historical research and contemporary practice, and, where possible, should employ analytical and theoretical analysis set within the context of our shared human experience." The issue contained two articles illustrating this approach: an overview of Hindu-Christian dialogue in India in the 1970s and 1980s by Anand Amaladass, and an assessment of the various approaches to …
The Role Of Ethics In Hindu-Christian Dialogue, Arvind Sharma
The Role Of Ethics In Hindu-Christian Dialogue, Arvind Sharma
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
I would like to offer some remarks on the role of ethics in Hindu-Christian dialogue. I shall argue that the presentations of their respective ethical positions by these traditions are often too flat, which is to say, not sufficiently nuanced so that each side enters into dialogue with an inadequate understanding of the other side. I shall then further argue that the dialogue may be more fruitful, if it proceeded with a mutual recognition of the ethical complexities involved in their respective positions.
Reports & News
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
Reports and news relevant to the Society for Hindu-Christian Studies, including information about the 2008 Annual General Meeting.
Book Review: "The History Of The Holy Servants Of The Lord Siva: A Translation Of The Periya Puranam Of Cekkilar", M. Thomas Thangaraj
Book Review: "The History Of The Holy Servants Of The Lord Siva: A Translation Of The Periya Puranam Of Cekkilar", M. Thomas Thangaraj
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
A review of The History of the Holy Servants of the Lord Siva: A Translation of the Periya Puranam of Cekkilar by Alaistair McGlashan.
Book Review: "Song Divine: Christian Commentaries On The Bhagavad Gita", Michael T. Mclaughlin
Book Review: "Song Divine: Christian Commentaries On The Bhagavad Gita", Michael T. Mclaughlin
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
A review of Song Divine: Christian Commentaries on the Bhagavad Gita edited by Catherine Cornille.
The Society For Hindu-Christian Studies
The Society For Hindu-Christian Studies
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
Information about the Society for Hindu-Christian Studies.
Introductory Information
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
Introductory information, including the editorial advisory board and the editorial policy.
Nine More- Or Less-Related Observations On Historical Approaches To Hindu-Christian Studies, Brian K. Pennington
Nine More- Or Less-Related Observations On Historical Approaches To Hindu-Christian Studies, Brian K. Pennington
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
For the purposes of this panel discussion, it seems more appropriate to make a series of suggestions and observations about the difficulties and promises of writing history within a Hindu-Christian framework than to offer a paper arguing a single point or perspective. Hindu-Christian history presents a particular set of challenges given the shifting political and material conditions that have attended the dramatic encounter between these disparate cultures and traditions. In what follows I attempt to articulate some of the larger issues with which I wrestle as I study and write Hindu-Christian history.
Being Catholic The Tamil Way: Assimilation And Differentiation, Selva J. Raj
Being Catholic The Tamil Way: Assimilation And Differentiation, Selva J. Raj
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
The ritual life of Tamil Catholics in south India defies tidy, conventional categories like assimilation, differentiation, and othering, since the complex negotiations characteristic of this lived tradition often involve both assimilation and differentiation. This dynamic reflects/reveals their hybrid and liminal cultural and religious condition where boundaries are not fixed or absolute, but constantly fluid, permeable, and negotiable. While this pattern is manifest almost in all spheres of Tamil Catholic life and practice, in this paper I focus on how lay Catholics configure and maintain their "tamilness" in the realms of devotional music, caste discourse, and public devotional rituals with relevant …
Book Review: "Christian Inculturation In India", Corinne Dempsey
Book Review: "Christian Inculturation In India", Corinne Dempsey
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
A review of Christian Inculturation in India by Paul Collins.
Book Review: "The Quest For Postmodern Ethics: A Phenomenological Comparison Of The Philosophies Of Martin Heidigger And Sri Aurobindo Ghose", Reid B. Locklin
Book Review: "The Quest For Postmodern Ethics: A Phenomenological Comparison Of The Philosophies Of Martin Heidigger And Sri Aurobindo Ghose", Reid B. Locklin
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
A review of The Quest for Postmodern Ethics: A Phenomenological Comparison of the Philosophies of Martin Heidigger and Sri Aurobindo Ghose by R. Brad Bannon.
Book Reviews Table Of Contents
Book Reviews Table Of Contents
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
A listing of the book reviews available in this issue.
Methodological Approaches To Hindu-Christian Studies: Some Thoughts, T.S. Rukmani
Methodological Approaches To Hindu-Christian Studies: Some Thoughts, T.S. Rukmani
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
I was surprised that any one would want me to be a respondent for a panel which was primarily concerned with methodological approaches to Hindu-Christian Studies, my interest being mainly philosophical Sanskrit texts. However as a Hindu and having lived in India for most of my adult life I was interested to learn more about the way academics deal with this issue, which really is one that is fraught with many complications. Harold Coward, who gave a retrospect of the Society at the beginning of the session, did indeed give me a glimpse of the topics and methodology followed in …
Book Review: "Bishop Stephen Neill: From Edinburgh To South India", Adam Dodds
Book Review: "Bishop Stephen Neill: From Edinburgh To South India", Adam Dodds
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
A review of Bishop Stephen Neill: From Edinburgh to South India by Dyron B. Daughrity.
Book Review: "The Crisis Of Secularism In India", Chad Bauman
Book Review: "The Crisis Of Secularism In India", Chad Bauman
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
A review of The Crisis of Secularism in India edited by Anuradha Dingwaney Needham and Rajeswari Sunder Rajan.
Book Review: "The Goddess Lives In Upstate New York: Breaking Convention And Making Home At A North American Hindu Temple", Eliza F. Kent
Book Review: "The Goddess Lives In Upstate New York: Breaking Convention And Making Home At A North American Hindu Temple", Eliza F. Kent
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
A review of The Goddess Lives in Upstate New York: Breaking Convention and Making Home at a North American Hindu Temple by Corinne G. Dempsey.
Recent Articles Of Interest 2008
Recent Articles Of Interest 2008
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
A listing of recently published articles of interest.
Missionary Views Of Hinduism, Catherine Cornille
Missionary Views Of Hinduism, Catherine Cornille
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
Since the beginning of the modern missionary movement, Christian missionary views of Hinduism have changed significantly, partly as a result of linguistic developments (to which some missionaries contributed in important ways) and partly as a result of theological shifts (themselves also at times inspired by missionary insights and experiences). The views of an eighteenth century Christian missionary thus differ radically from those of missionaries able to profit from the translation efforts of nineteenth and twentieth century scholarship, and the views of a contemporary Roman Catholic missionary may bear little resemblance to that of an Evangelical Protestant.