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Rudolf Otto’S Encounter With Rāmānuja As A Model For Comparative Theology, Hugh Nicholson
Rudolf Otto’S Encounter With Rāmānuja As A Model For Comparative Theology, Hugh Nicholson
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
Among his more noteworthy achievements, Rudolf Otto introduced Vaiṣṇava theism, Rāmānuja’s Viśiṣṭādvaita in particular, to a broader theological audience. In this paper, I argue that despite the well-known shortcomings of Otto’s comparative work, in particular, his tendency to essentialize the compared traditions and his presumption of Christian superiority, Otto’s encounter with Rāmānuja and Vaiṣṇavism nevertheless anticipates some of the characteristic features of the contemporary practice of Comparative Theology. The article describes how Otto’s work on Vaiṣṇavism exemplifies two such features of the new Comparative Theology in particular. The first of these is this discipline’s concern with problematizing the often invidious …
Book Review: A.J. Appasamy And His Reading Of RāMāNuja: A Comparative Study In Divine Embodiment, Arun W. Jones
Book Review: A.J. Appasamy And His Reading Of RāMāNuja: A Comparative Study In Divine Embodiment, Arun W. Jones
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
Book review of A.J. Appasamy and his Reading of Rāmānuja: A Comparative Study in Divine Embodiment. By Brian Philip Dunn. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, xi + 315 pages.
Book Review: Teaching Interreligious Encounters, Stephanie Corigliano
Book Review: Teaching Interreligious Encounters, Stephanie Corigliano
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
Book review of Teaching Interreligious Encounters. Edited by Marc A. Pugliese and Alexander Y. Hwang. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017, 368 pages.
Does God Have A Body? Rāmānuja’S Challenge To The Christian Tradition, Jon Paul Sydnor
Does God Have A Body? Rāmānuja’S Challenge To The Christian Tradition, Jon Paul Sydnor
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
The Christian tradition’s core theological assertion is the embodiment of God in the person of Jesus Christ. Yet, even while asserting God’s incarnation in space and time, the tradition has usually denied embodiment unto the Godhead itself. Theologians have based this denial on Jewish iconoclasm, Greek idealism, and inferences from God’s omnipresence, transcendence, and infinity. This speculative essay will argue that Hindu Śrīvaiṣṇava theologian Rāmānuja successfully addresses these concerns. He argues for the embodiment of an omnipresent, transcendent, and infinite personal God. Rāmānuja largely derives his arguments from the Hindu scriptures. Nevertheless, their rational explication and internal coherence render divine …
Expanding And Refining Christian Interpretations Of Rāmānuja, John B. Carman
Expanding And Refining Christian Interpretations Of Rāmānuja, John B. Carman
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
In the last century there has been a remarkable expansion of studies of Rāmānuja by scholars outside the Śrīvaiṣṇava community. This paper concentrates on the contributions of some Christian scholars. Many of the earlier studies focused on Rāmānuja’s opposition to Śaṇkara’s interpretation of the Vedanta, with Roman Catholic scholars tending to favor Śaṇkara and Protestant scholars Rāmānuja. The Belgian Jesuit Pierre Johanns argued for a Christian reinterpretation of the Vedanta that would merge the truths in the different Hindu schools, giving primary importance to Śaṇkara, but modifying the Hindu teaching through the distinctive Christian doctrine of “creation out of nothing.” …
2018 Annual Meeting Sessions, Society Of Hindu-Christian Studies
2018 Annual Meeting Sessions, Society Of Hindu-Christian Studies
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
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Book Review: Comparing Faithfully: Insights For Systematic Theological Reflection, Stephanie Corigliano
Book Review: Comparing Faithfully: Insights For Systematic Theological Reflection, Stephanie Corigliano
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
Book review of Comparing Faithfully: Insights for Systematic Theological Reflection. Edited by Michelle Voss Roberts, Bronx, New York: Fordham University Press, 2016, 304 pages.
Recent Articles Of Interest 2017, Jhcs Staff
Recent Articles Of Interest 2017, Jhcs Staff
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
A list of recently published articles of interest to society members.
Yoga, Christians Practicing Yoga, And God: On Theological Compatibility, Or Is There A Better Question?, Andrea R. Jain
Yoga, Christians Practicing Yoga, And God: On Theological Compatibility, Or Is There A Better Question?, Andrea R. Jain
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
Houston is a wildly diverse city; nonetheless it should come as no surprise that the Houston Chronicle “Belief” section frequently features stories about church expansions or declines, pastoral developments, and other reports on Christian communities. Christians, after all, make up over 70% of the city’s population. A provocative cover of a 2011 Belief section, however, shed light on a very different face of religion in Houston. The cover featured an image of local yoga teacher and entrepreneur Jennifer Buergermeister donning fashionable yoga attire and in the posture of a South Asian goddess, complete (thanks to clever photography) with six arms. …
Book Review: Absent Mother God Of The West: A Kali Lover’S Journey Into Christianity And Judaism, Holly Hillgardner
Book Review: Absent Mother God Of The West: A Kali Lover’S Journey Into Christianity And Judaism, Holly Hillgardner
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
Book review of Absent Mother God of the West: A Kali Lover’s Journey into Christianity and Judaism. By Neela Bhattacharya Saxena. London: Lexington Books, 2016. ix + 208 pages.
Book Review: Vernacular Catholicism, Vernacular Saints: Selva J. Raj On “Being Catholic The Tamil Way”, James Ponniah
Book Review: Vernacular Catholicism, Vernacular Saints: Selva J. Raj On “Being Catholic The Tamil Way”, James Ponniah
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
Book review of Vernacular Catholicism, Vernacular Saints: Selva J. Raj on “Being Catholic the Tamil Way.” Edited by Reid B. Locklin. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 2017, xvii + 290 pages.
Book Review: Ritual Participation And Interreligious Dialogue: Boundaries, Transgressions And Innovations, Francis X. Clooney
Book Review: Ritual Participation And Interreligious Dialogue: Boundaries, Transgressions And Innovations, Francis X. Clooney
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
Book review of Ritual Participation and Interreligious Dialogue: Boundaries, Transgressions and Innovations. Edited by Marianne Moyaert and Joris Geldhof. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2015. ix + 262 pages.
Book Review: The Future Of Hindu-Christian Studies: A Theological Inquiry, Arvind Sharma
Book Review: The Future Of Hindu-Christian Studies: A Theological Inquiry, Arvind Sharma
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
Book review of The Future of Hindu-Christian Studies: A Theological Inquiry. By Francis X. Clooney, S.J. London and New York: Routledge, 2017, xi + 135 pages.
Is God Good? Aquinas, Śamkara, Abhinavagupta, Balinese Śaivism, And The Problematics Of The Argument From Evil, Lance E. Nelson
Is God Good? Aquinas, Śamkara, Abhinavagupta, Balinese Śaivism, And The Problematics Of The Argument From Evil, Lance E. Nelson
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
The problem of evil--as opposed to the argument from evil--is an ancient one, but it was not initially formulated as an argument in support of atheism. God's existence was taken for granted, and on that basis thinkers like Augustine engaged an serious intellectual struggle with deep questions about the divine raised by the presence of evil in the world: the unicity of God, the knowability of God, the possibility of Divine providence.⁴ The atheist argument from evil--especially as expounded of late by the New Atheists--tends to reduce this history to a caricature.
Book Review: Re-Imagining South Asian Religions: Essays In Honour Of Professors Harold G. Coward And Ronald W. Neufeldt, Bob Robinson
Book Review: Re-Imagining South Asian Religions: Essays In Honour Of Professors Harold G. Coward And Ronald W. Neufeldt, Bob Robinson
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
Book Review of Re-imagining South Asian Religions: Essays in Honour of Professors Harold G. Coward and Ronald W. Neufeldt. (Numen Book Series: Studies in the History of Religions, volume 141.) Edited by Pashaura Singh and Michael Hawley. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2013, xxv + 302 pp.
Book Review: Sacred Matters: Material Religion In South Asian Traditions, Lloyd W. Pflueger
Book Review: Sacred Matters: Material Religion In South Asian Traditions, Lloyd W. Pflueger
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
Book Review of Sacred Matters: Material Religion in South Asian Traditions. Edited by Tracy Pintchman and Corinne G. Dempsey. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2015, xi + 221 pp.
Briefly Noted: God’S Other Children: Personal Encounters With Faith, Love, And Holiness In Sacred India, Kerry San Chirico
Briefly Noted: God’S Other Children: Personal Encounters With Faith, Love, And Holiness In Sacred India, Kerry San Chirico
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
Book Review of God’s Other Children: Personal Encounters with Faith, Love, and Holiness in Sacred India. By Bradley Malkovsky. New York: Harper Collins, 2013, xiii + 289 pp.
Narasimha, Lord Of Transitions, Transformations, And Theater Festivals: God And Evil In Hindu Cosmology, Myth, And Practice, Lavanya Vemsani
Narasimha, Lord Of Transitions, Transformations, And Theater Festivals: God And Evil In Hindu Cosmology, Myth, And Practice, Lavanya Vemsani
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
This paper focuses on the multi-faceted nature of the divine depicted in Narasimha and the unique perspectives on God and evil offered by the myths of Narasimha, which is also subliminally represented within the religious practice and performance traditions associated with Narasimha.
The Limits Of Theodicy: An Eastern Orthodox Perspective On Evil And Interreligious Theology, Rico G. Monge
The Limits Of Theodicy: An Eastern Orthodox Perspective On Evil And Interreligious Theology, Rico G. Monge
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
This essay is written from the vantage point of a comparative theologian who is personally steeped in the Eastern Orthodox Christian tradition and who primarily specializes in Christian-Muslim comparative theology. It might seems curious, then, that the present essay employs the comparative theological method in order to focus on questions of theodicy in the Christian and Hindu traditions. Perhaps even more curious, however, is that I aim not at articulating a comparative Christian-Hindu theodicy, but rather at suggesting that the most productive path forward is a comparative theological rejection of theodicy as a productive enterprise. Drawing from resources within my …
Viewpoint: Hinduism And The Academy: Towards A Dialogue Between Scholar And Practitioner, Ravi M. Gupta
Viewpoint: Hinduism And The Academy: Towards A Dialogue Between Scholar And Practitioner, Ravi M. Gupta
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
Gupta articlulates a rationale as to why the position of both the academician and the practitioner are necessary for meaningful religious dialog.
Book Review:Against Dogmatism: Dwelling In Faith And Doubt, Michelle Voss Roberts
Book Review:Against Dogmatism: Dwelling In Faith And Doubt, Michelle Voss Roberts
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
Book Review of Against Dogmatism: Dwelling in Faith and Doubt. Madhuri M. Yadlapati. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2013, 204 pp.
An Aesthetics Of Hospitality: Embodied Religious Experience And Scholarly Engagement In Hindu-Christian Studies, Katherine C. Zubko
An Aesthetics Of Hospitality: Embodied Religious Experience And Scholarly Engagement In Hindu-Christian Studies, Katherine C. Zubko
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
IT is with pleasure that I accepted an invitation to be a respondent to a panel that explores the interstices between aesthetic theory and practice. As an ethnographer who is trained in Sanskrit aesthetics, I am particularly interested in what happens in the spaces of contact and crossover between various embodied religious traditions. For me, these explorations mostly have been located in the study of Bhārata Nāṭyam, a rhythmic dance form through which artists traditionally enact the stories of Hindu gods and their devotees. In contemporary practice, the themes and practitioners of this dance form reflect a much broader spectrum …
Viewpoint: For The Love Of Complexity: Educating Beyond Enthusiasms, Thomas A. Forsthefel
Viewpoint: For The Love Of Complexity: Educating Beyond Enthusiasms, Thomas A. Forsthefel
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
I’D like to begin this essay by sharing a brief personal narrative which I trust is illustrative. I was raised in the Roman Catholic tradition, but like many students in college ignored or rejected much of it in favor of other worlds of meaning and value. However, late in my undergraduate career, at Georgetown, I found myself in net of emotional and spiritual distress and felt existentially unmoored. That distress was the antecedent and catalyst for a profound re-encounter with the heart of Christian faith, a conversion or, perhaps better, re-conversion, as my faith certainly was meaningful to me as …
The Androgynous Visual Piety Of The Mother And Sri Aurobindo And St. Clare And St. Francis, Patrick Beldio
The Androgynous Visual Piety Of The Mother And Sri Aurobindo And St. Clare And St. Francis, Patrick Beldio
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
When one critically compares the Mother and Sri Aurobindo of Pondicherry, India with St. Clare and St. Francis of Assisi, Italy, one notices that the women are essential to manifesting the work and lives of the men. In fact, these two couples ultimately model a unity of gender, power, love, and work that is quite rare in any time or place. The theme of androgyny, therefore, emerges as an important lens through which to interpret their work together as celibate spiritual partners. As I will demonstrate, the theme of androgyny is seen, not only in their written texts, but equally …
The Asymmetry Of ‘Creation’ And ‘Origination’: Contrasts Within Comparative Theology, Daniel P. Sheridan
The Asymmetry Of ‘Creation’ And ‘Origination’: Contrasts Within Comparative Theology, Daniel P. Sheridan
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
THE following essay is a contribution to comparative theology, particularly in its contrastive dimension. For a successful comparative theology, the two theologies or religious perspectives being compared and contrasted must be described accurately and equally in depth. Where Christian theology in its Catholic dimension is one pole of the comparison, it is important to make a distinction between doctrine and theology which I will do below. Issues of translation also immediately arise.
Book Review: Debating ‘Conversion’ In Hinduism And Christianity, Chad Bauman
Book Review: Debating ‘Conversion’ In Hinduism And Christianity, Chad Bauman
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
Book review of Debating ‘Conversion’ in Hinduism and Christianity. By Ankur Barua. London: Routledge, 2015, x + 217 pp.
Book Review: A Hindu Theology Of Liberation: Not-Two Is Not One, Harold Coward
Book Review: A Hindu Theology Of Liberation: Not-Two Is Not One, Harold Coward
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
Book review of A Hindu Theology of Liberation: Not-Two is Not One. Anantanand Rambachan. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2015, xi + 230 pages.
Book Review: Homegrown Gurus: From Hinduism In America To American Hinduism, Thomas A. Forsthefel
Book Review: Homegrown Gurus: From Hinduism In America To American Hinduism, Thomas A. Forsthefel
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
Book review of Homegrown Gurus: From Hinduism in America to American Hinduism. Edited by Ann Gleig and Lola Williamson. Albany: SUNY Press, 2013, xi + 234 pages.
Book Review: The Truth Within: A History Of Inwardness In Christianity, Hinduism, And Buddhism, Holly Hillgardner
Book Review: The Truth Within: A History Of Inwardness In Christianity, Hinduism, And Buddhism, Holly Hillgardner
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
Book review of The Truth Within: A History of Inwardness in Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism. Gavin Flood. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, xviii + 310 pages.
Hindu-Christian Relations In The Everyday Life Of North Indian Pentecostals, Julia Kuhlin
Hindu-Christian Relations In The Everyday Life Of North Indian Pentecostals, Julia Kuhlin
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
OVER the last few decades, Hindu-Christian relations in India appear to have taken a new worrying turn. Since 1998 violent attacks against Christians in India have increased significantly, and there are no signs of decline. Pentecostal and Pentecostal-like groups have been afflicted to a greater extent by this recent development and are disproportionately targeted in attacks in comparison to other Christians.1 Considering the explosion of academic studies on Pentecostalism worldwide, it is striking that so little attention has been paid to the contemporary situation of Indian Pentecostals. In particular, there is a notable lack of studies dealing with Indian Pentecostals’ …