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Book Review: "Being Different: An Indian Challenge To Western Universalism", T. S. Rukmani

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

A review of Being Different: An Indian Challenge to Western Universalism by Rajiv Malhotra.

Book Review: "Interpreting Ramakrishna: Kali's Child Revisited", June Mcdaniel

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

A review of Interpreting Ramakrishna: Kali's Child Revisited by Swami Tyagananda and Pravrajika Vrajaprana.

Reports And News

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

Reports and News for the 2011 Annual General Meeting of the Society for Hindu-Christian Studies.

Viewpoint: Teaching Hinduism In Catholic High Schools, Pravrajika Saradeshaprana, Tracy Sayuki Tiemeier

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

The Los Angeles Hindu-Catholic Dialogue recently organized a workshop at Loyola Marymount University on Teaching Hinduism in Catholic High Schools (May 2010). Initiated by a Hindu member of the Dialogue who was disturbed by the World Religions textbook used in a local Catholic high school, the workshop's goal was to help teachers of World Religions at Catholic high schools teach Hindu traditions more accurately and respectfully. The daylong event featured sessions on Hindu Perspectives on Education, Resources and Strategies in Teaching Hinduism, and small group dialogues between Hindu speakers and attendees and Catholic teachers.

Convergences And Divergences: The Lives Of Swami Abhishiktananda And Raimundo Panikkar, Edward T. Ulrich

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

Today the field of Hindu-Christian studies is burgeoning with both advanced scholars and freshly minted PhDs. However, during most of the twentieth century it was rare for a Christian thinker to take non-Christian religions seriously as a meaningful area of theological inquiry. Those who did generally limited themselves to theorizing about these religions in the abstract, rather than engaging with living members of these religions. Five outstanding exceptions were Jules Monchanin, Swami Abhishiktananda, Raimundo Panikkar, Francis Acharya, and Bede Griffiths, all of whom were Catholic priests who settled in India over a sixteen year time period, from 1939 to 1955. …

A Literary Hindu-Christian Dialogue A Century Ago: Still Actual?, Klaus K. Klostermaier

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

Re-reading Alkondavilli Govindacarya The Divine Wisdom of the Dravida Saints Madras: C.N. Press, 1902, XXIII + 216 pages.

A preliminary note: This is not a 'book review' as this is usually understood; it would make little sense to write on after over a century of the first publication of the work. It is an invitation to re-discover a reputable Hindu scholar who was eager to find in Christianity parallels to his own faith-tradition. His very choice of topics is intriguing. The range of Christian literature referred to and quoted from is amazing; I believe it is without parallel. The fact …

Author Response, Michelle Voss Roberts

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

I am humbled and honored by the engagement of these four scholars, all of whom have significantly influenced my thinking. Francis Clooney's pioneering work first interested me in the practice of comparative reading. Lance Nelson's reflections on the ecological implications of a non-dualism provided a springboard for much of chapter three. Laurel Schneider's radical push toward multiplicity has challenged my constructive thinking. Conversations with Brad Bannon, a new dialogue partner, have generated new springs of insight. I am grateful to each of them for the gift of their response to Dualities. I also owe a debt of gratitude to …

A Response To Michelle Voss Roberts' Dualities, Francis X. Clooney

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

Dualities is a serious contribution to Hindu-Christian studies, bringing fresh and challenging materials before us. It wonderfully brings together reflection on feminist concerns, attention to the metaphors by which we identify and organize natural and social realities, and critical attention to how linguistic and ontological categories, such as dualities and dualism, fluidity and fluidities, have effects of ethical and spiritual import.

Playing In The Flood Of Love: A Response To Michelle Voss Roberts' "Dualities: A Theology Of Difference", Brad Bannon

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

As John Thatamanil confesses in his Foreward to Michelle Voss Roberts' Dualities, I too, as a nondualist theologian, was initially apprehensive about Voss Roberts' title. However, I quickly came to find that the plural emphasis of dualities and the private emphasis of non-dualism actually speak to similar concerns over the inadequacies of both monism and dualism. The dualism denied by non-dualism and the multiplicity and relationality affirmed by dualities are more harmonious than dissonant.

Michelle Voss Roberts' "Dualities", Laurel C. Schneider

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

Dualities is an important book. It represents a contribution to the field of Hindu Christian studies, but it also adds considerably to women's studies in religion and to the emergent field of comparative theology. Michelle Voss Roberts has managed to treat with sensitivity and creativity two enigmatic figures, each from long ago and far away (from us and from each other), and each from two dramatically different religious traditions. What is remarkable about this study is that Voss Roberts manages to introduce us to the basic shape of both of these women's thought while at the same time pursuing a …

Dualities And Women's Wisdom In Hinduism: Voss Roberts On Lallesvari Of Kashmir, Lance Nelson

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

The stereotype of the dualist West versus the nondualist East has far outlived whatever usefulness it may have had. As one who has been concerned with this issue in my own work, I am happy to see Michelle Voss Roberts addressing it methodically and effectively n her Dualities: A Theology of Difference. She gives us in this book a multi-leveled study that advances this discussion dramatically on a number of interconnected fronts, both theological and ethical, encompassing wide-ranging feminist, ecological, and social justice concerns. I find myself in enthusiastic agreement with much that she writes. In what follows I …

Editor's Introduction, Brad Malkovsky

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

The publication of Michelle Voss Roberts' Dualities: A Theology of Difference (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2010) has been welcomed by many scholars in the field of Hindu-Christian studies as one of the best books in comparative theology to have appeared in recent years. In it the author focuses on what she calls "the metaphysics of difference and differences between metaphysical systems in the world's religions," through which she seeks to open "new routes through the discourse surrounding dualism, duality, and relation" (xix). She reexamines issues about duality and relation by drawing on the work of Lallesvari, a fourteenth …

Table Of Contents And Editorial Information

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

Volume 24 table of contents and editorial information.

Some Recent Developments In Hindu Understandings Of Jesus, Bradley Malkovsky

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

Hindu reflection on the person and work of Jesus Christ, what we might call "Hindu christology," is an enterprise that has slowly evolved since the early nineteenth century and is still very much in the making. It has undergone some significant changes since the middle of the twentieth century with some surprising additional perspectives emerging in recent years.

Book Review: "Yoga Body: The Origins Of Modern Posture Practice", Harold Coward

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

A review of Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice by Mark Singleton.

Table Of Contents

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

Table of contents for Volume 23.

Editor's Introduction, Bradley Malkovsky

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

The editor's introduction to this issue.

Suffering Savior - A Hindu Vaisnava Perspective, K.R. Sundararajan

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

My interest in inter-religious dialogue goes back tot he late sixties when I was a research student working on a doctoral dissertation on "The Doctrine of Incarnation in Hinduism and Christianity" and continued when I became a lecturer in Hindu Studies at the very first department of Religious Studies in India at Punjabi University in Patiala. From there I was brought to the Harvard Center for the Study of World Religions as a Fellow by Professor John Carman to take courses in Christian Studies at the Harvard Divinity School for three years from 1970 to 1973. It was a period …

"He Is Our Master": Jesus In The Thought Of Swami Prabhupada, Ravi M. Gupta

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

"Now that steam, electricity, and the printing press have brought into closer communication the different races that inhabit the earth, and have expanded the minds of men, tending to dispel the illusion that God Almighty especially favours any particular people, it is time to proclaim to the world, that if a messenger of God appeared in Judea about nineteen hundred years ago, it is no less true that a messenger from the same God appeared in the quiet town of Navadweep (popularly known as Nadia) in Bengal, some fifteen centuries later. The former is known by the name of Jesus …

Vidyaranya Swami's "Pañca Viveka" And Thomas Aquinas' "Quinque Viae" In The Light Of Today's Science, Klaus K. Klostermaier

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

In the context of recent attempts to shore up atheism with philosophical and scientific arguments the construction of rational proofs for the existence of God is receiving renewed attention. Over against the assertion of some scientists that religious belief is both unscientific and irrational, philosophers and theologians argue that the study of nature itself offers a great deal of evidence for the existence of a Creator. They are supported by numerous reputable scientists, the authors of book titles like The Language of God or The Mind of God and many others. it is noteworthy that Google has over two million …

A World Filled With Grace: Conceptualizing The Divine In Hindu Devotionalism And Karl Rahner, Ankur Barua

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

In recent decades, a substantial body of scholarly work in the field of Hindu-Christian studies has been produced, which has not only done much to dispel earlier stereotypes of Hindu life-worlds as steeped in 'pantheism', 'world-negation' and the like, but also urged Christian thinkers to reflect on their own foundational beliefs through Hindu motifs. A relatively unexplored theme remains that of whether, and in what ways, the divine reality can be conceptualized as 'gracious' in Hindu devotionalism, especially given that the Christian doctrine of 'grace is related to a constellation of other notions such as creation out of nothing, justification …

Reports And News

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

A collection of reports and news relevant to the society, including information about the 2010 Annual Meeting Program.

Book Review: "Jesus As Guru: The Images Of Christ Among Hindus And Christians In India", Swasti Bhattacharyya

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

A review of Jesus as Guru: The Images of Christ Among Hindus and Christians in India by Jan Peter Schouten.

Book Review: "The Founder Of Hare Krishnas As Seen By Devotees: A Cognitive Study Of Religious Charisma", Kiyokazu Okita

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

A review of The Founder of Hare Krishnas as Seen by Devotees: A Cognitive Study of Religious Charisma by Kimmo Ketola.

Book Review: "India And The Indianness Of Christianity: Essays On Understanding", George Pati

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

A review of India and the Indianness of Christianity: Essays on Understanding edited by Richard Fox Young.

Book Review: "Jesus In The Lotus: The Mystical Doorway Between Christianity And Yogic Spirituality", Bradley Malkovsky

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

A review of Jesus in the Lotus: The Mystical Doorway between Christianity and Yogic Spirituality by Russill Paul.

Book Reviews Table Of Contents

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

A listing of the book reviews available in this issue.

The Society For Hindu-Christian Studies

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

Information about the Society for Hindu-Christian Studies, including contact information.

A Report On The "Sri Iesu Sahasranama" Of K. U. Chacko, Francis X. Clooney

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

In 1987 K.U. Chacko, a Professor of Sanskrit at Nirmala College in Muvattupuzha in Kerala, published in a small booklet the Sri Iesu Sahasranama, a thousand names of Jesus in Sanskrit, written down in Malyalam script; in 1995 it was reprinted in Devanagari script. The cover indicates that it was edited by Professor M H. Sastri.

Book Review: "Comparative Theology: Deep Learning Across Religious Borders", Reid B. Locklin

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

A review of Comparative Theology: Deep Learning Across Religious Borders by Francis X. Clooney.