Review: Melissa Anne-Marie Curley, Pure Land, Real World: Modern Buddhism, Japanese Leftists, And The Utopian Imagination,
2019
Bucknell University
Review: Melissa Anne-Marie Curley, Pure Land, Real World: Modern Buddhism, Japanese Leftists, And The Utopian Imagination, James Mark Shields
Other Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
Recapture, Transparency, Negation And A Logic For The Catuṣkoṭi,
2019
University of St Andrews
Recapture, Transparency, Negation And A Logic For The Catuṣkoṭi, Adrian Kreutz
Comparative Philosophy
The recent literature on Nāgārjuna’s catuṣkoṭi centres around Jay Garfield’s (2009) and Graham Priest’s (2010) interpretation. It is an open discussion to what extent their interpretation is an adequate model of the logic for the catuskoti, and the Mūla-madhyamaka-kārikā. Priest and Garfield try to make sense of the contradictions within the catuskoti by appeal to a series of lattices – orderings of truth-values, supposed to model the path to enlightenment. They use Anderson & Belnaps's (1975) framework of First Degree Entailment. Cotnoir (2015) has argued that the lattices of Priest and Garfield …
Being Biblical In A Pluralistic Academy,
2019
Andrews University
Being Biblical In A Pluralistic Academy
Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)
This essay examines two senses of what it means to be biblical in a pluralistic academy. The first is to examine the Bible as a document of the university, susceptible to many kinds of critical probing. The rest of the essay explores the second way, which is to use the Bible as the authoritative control story that articulates how Christians view Jesus Christ as the ground, grammar, and goal of both the university and the universe itself. I examine how biblical authority should and should not be deployed in the academy by looking at the natural and human sciences. I …
Capes, David B., Rodney Reeves, And E. Randolph Richards. Rediscovering Paul: An Introduction To His World, Letters And Theology. 2nd Ed. Downers Grove, Il: Intervarsity Press, 2017. 462 Pp. Hardcover. Usd 34.20.,
2019
Andrews University
Capes, David B., Rodney Reeves, And E. Randolph Richards. Rediscovering Paul: An Introduction To His World, Letters And Theology. 2nd Ed. Downers Grove, Il: Intervarsity Press, 2017. 462 Pp. Hardcover. Usd 34.20., Edwin Payet
Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)
No abstract provided.
The Blackwell Companion To Substance Dualism [Review] / Loose, Jonathan J., Angus J. L. Menuge, And J. P. Moreland, Eds.,
2019
Andrews University
The Blackwell Companion To Substance Dualism [Review] / Loose, Jonathan J., Angus J. L. Menuge, And J. P. Moreland, Eds., Flavio Prestes Iii
Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)
Book Review
Who Is The Viṣṇu Of The Viṣṇu Purāṇa?,
2019
Cleveland State University
Who Is The Viṣṇu Of The Viṣṇu Purāṇa?, Sucharita Adluri Ms.
Philosophy and Religious Studies Department Faculty Publications
Between the 12th to the 14th centuries, two commentaries on the Viṣṇu Purāṇa were composed by Viṣṇucitta (~12th CE) and Śrīdhara (13th–14th CE). Known as the Viṣṇucittīya and Ātmaprakāśa, they are interpretations from the perspectives of Viśiṣṭādvaita and Advaita Vedānta respectively. While the purāṇa weaves together Viṣṇu mythology of a creator god active in the world and worshipped in various forms with the upaniṣadic doctrine of the highest Self, this characterization undergoes various permutations in the hands of the two exegetes. In examining their commentarial strategies, this paper broadens our understanding of the Viṣṇu Purāṇa as not simply a root …
The Blind Arhat And The Old Baby: Liberation By Wisdom, The Dry-Insight Practitioner, And The Pairing Of Calm And Insight,
2019
Linfield College
The Blind Arhat And The Old Baby: Liberation By Wisdom, The Dry-Insight Practitioner, And The Pairing Of Calm And Insight, David V. Fiordalis
Faculty Publications
The distinction between “calm” (Pāli: samatha; Sanskrit: śamatha) and “insight” (P: vipassanā; Skt: vipaśyanā) is one of several ostensibly related dichotomies that have exerted a significant influence on classical and contemporary understandings of Buddhist practices, institutions, and history, as well as of the Buddhist path(s) to and conception(s) of awakening. However, scholars continue to debate whether Buddhists ever conceptualized two (or more) different paths or conceptions of this goal. Much of the debate has been based on the interpretation of doctrinal and theoretical materials. This essay takes as its starting point the concept of “liberation by …
Christ-Centered Bhakti:A Literary And Ethnographic Study Of Worship,
2019
University of Cambridge
Christ-Centered Bhakti:A Literary And Ethnographic Study Of Worship, Nadya Pohran
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
Bhakti (loving devotion) centered on and directed to Jesus Christ—or what I here call "Christ-centred bhakti"—is an increasingly popular religious practice in India and elsewhere. The first half of this paper seeks to explore some of the roots of the contemporary spiritual practice of bhakti poetry which has been written and/or is being sung in India. An overview of bhakti in a broader sense provides the necessary foundation so as to then explore and contextualise the emerging practice of Christ-centered bhakti poetry—often called ‘Yeshu’ (Jesus) or ‘Khrist’ (Christ) bhajans (devotional hymns)—within the broader theological and experiential frameworks of Hindu bhakti. …
Caste, Conversion, And Care:Toward An Anthropology Of Christianity In India,
2019
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Caste, Conversion, And Care:Toward An Anthropology Of Christianity In India, Sarbeswar Sahoo
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
This paper critically examines Nathaniel Roberts’ book, To be Cared For. It argues that by discussing the “unique moral problems and cultural contradictions” that surround the everyday life-world of low caste Dalit Pentecostals in a slum in Chennai, Roberts provides a rich ethnography of caste, Christianity and care in India. In particular, the book makes several contributions: first, it provides a nuanced, contextual understanding of the “pluralities” of Indian Christianities; second, contrary to Gandhian view of “religion as spirituality”, it shows (by questioning the hierarchy of the religious world) how materiality or worldly benefits occupy a central role in the …
Response To Sarbeswar Sahoo And Eliza Kent,
2019
University of Göttingen
Response To Sarbeswar Sahoo And Eliza Kent, Nathaniel Roberts
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
In this response to Sarbeswar Sahoo, and Eliza Kent, I attempt to address some of the questions, challenges and insights they have put forth in their comments on To Be Cared For. I focus, in particular, on the methodological question of how I define the object of that and what it leaves out, and how I justify my own epistemological stance in relation to those I study, whose views I sometimes challenge. I do so by highlighting a basic distinction between ethnographic studies which take religion itself as an object of investigation, and an anthropological study such as mine, in …
2019 Annual Meeting Sessions,
2019
Butler University
2019 Annual Meeting Sessions, Society Of Hindu-Christian Studies
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
No abstract provided.
On Śrīla Prabhupāda’S Insistence That“‘Christ’ Came From ‘Krishna.’”,
2019
Butler University
On Śrīla Prabhupāda’S Insistence That“‘Christ’ Came From ‘Krishna.’”, Ronald V. Huggins
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
ISKCON founder Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda was convinced that the name Christ was derived from Krishna. He frequently appealed to this as a way of dispelling Western Christian reservations about participating in kirtana. The present article explores (1) the place this etymological claim played in Prabhupāda’s thinking and missionary strategy, (2) how he came to defend it in the first place, and (3) how his defense fit into the ongoing East/West discussion of the alleged etymological interdependence of Christ and Krishna that has been going on since the 18th century. At the heart of Prabhupāda’s argument is the interchangeability of Ns …
Book Review: Hindu Pluralism: Religion And The Public Sphere In Early Modern India,
2019
University of Toronto
Book Review: Hindu Pluralism: Religion And The Public Sphere In Early Modern India, Reid B. Locklin
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
Book Review of Hindu Pluralism: Religion and the Public Sphere in Early Modern India. By Elaine M. Fisher. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2017, xii + 285 pages
Book Review: Possessed By The Virgin: Hinduism, Roman Catholicism, And Marian Possession In South India,
2019
Bowdoin College
Book Review: Possessed By The Virgin: Hinduism, Roman Catholicism, And Marian Possession In South India, Claire C. Robison
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
Book Review of Possessed by the Virgin: Hinduism, Roman Catholicism, and Marian Possession in South India. By Kristin Bloomer. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018, 352 pages
Book Review: Hagiography And Religious Truth: Case Studies In The Abrahamic And Dharmic Traditions,
2019
Emmanuel College (Boston)
Book Review: Hagiography And Religious Truth: Case Studies In The Abrahamic And Dharmic Traditions, Jon Paul Sydnor
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
Book Review of Hagiography and Religious Truth: Case Studies in the Abrahamic and Dharmic Traditions. Edited by Rico G. Monge, Kerry P. C. San Chirico, and Rachel J. Smith. New York: Bloomsbury, 2016, xv + 265 pages
Book Review: Infinite Paths To Infinite Reality: Sri Ramakrishna & Cross-Cultural Philosophy Of Religion,
2019
Bard Early College-DC
Book Review: Infinite Paths To Infinite Reality: Sri Ramakrishna & Cross-Cultural Philosophy Of Religion, Patrick Beldio
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
Book Review of Infinite Paths to Infinite Reality: Sri Ramakrishna & Cross-Cultural Philosophy of Religion. By Ayon Maharaj. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. xii + 350 pages
Book Review: Christianity In India: Conversion, Community Development, And Religious Freedom. Edited By Rebecca Samuel Shah And Joel Carpenter. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2018, Xix + 311 Pages.,
2019
Butler University
Book Review: Christianity In India: Conversion, Community Development, And Religious Freedom. Edited By Rebecca Samuel Shah And Joel Carpenter. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2018, Xix + 311 Pages., Chad M. Bauman
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
Book Review of Christianity in India: Conversion, Community Development, and Religious Freedom. Edited by Rebecca Samuel Shah and Joel Carpenter. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2018, xix + 311 pages
Book Review: Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu: American Representations Of India, 1721-1893,
2019
Ball State University
Book Review: Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu: American Representations Of India, 1721-1893, Jeffrey M. Brackett
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
Book Review of Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu: American Representations of India, 1721-1893. By Michael J. Altman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017, vii + 175 pages
Book Review: Privileged Minorities: Syrian Christianity, Gender, And Minority Rights In Postcolonial India,
2019
Emory University
Book Review: Privileged Minorities: Syrian Christianity, Gender, And Minority Rights In Postcolonial India, Arun W. Jones
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
Book Review of Privileged Minorities: Syrian Christianity, Gender, and Minority Rights in Postcolonial India. By Sonja Thomas. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018, x + 210 pages
Volume 32, Full Contents,
2019
Butler University
Volume 32, Full Contents, Jhcs Staff
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
No abstract provided.
