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Christ-Centered Bhakti:A Literary And Ethnographic Study Of Worship, Nadya Pohran
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, Sarbeswar Sahoo
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, Nathaniel Roberts
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, Society Of Hindu-Christian Studies
2019 Annual Meeting Sessions, Society Of Hindu-Christian Studies
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
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On Śrīla Prabhupāda’S Insistence That“‘Christ’ Came From ‘Krishna.’”, Ronald V. Huggins
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, Reid B. Locklin
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, Claire C. Robison
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, Jon Paul Sydnor
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, Patrick Beldio
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., 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, Jeffrey M. Brackett
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, Arun W. Jones
Book Review: Privileged Minorities: Syrian Christianity, Gender, And Minority Rights In Postcolonial India, Arun W. Jones
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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, Jhcs Staff
Volume 32, Full Contents, Jhcs Staff
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
No abstract provided.
Editor’S Introduction, Gopal Gupta
Editor’S Introduction, Gopal Gupta
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
No abstract provided.
Review Of Nathaniel Roberts’ To Be Cared For:The Power Of Conversion And The Foreignness Of Belonging In An Indian Slum, Eliza F. Kent
Review Of Nathaniel Roberts’ To Be Cared For:The Power Of Conversion And The Foreignness Of Belonging In An Indian Slum, Eliza F. Kent
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
This article focuses on Roberts’ argument that the religiosity of urban Tamil Dalits, or “slum religion,” transcends Hindu or Christian affiliation. Roberts’ ethnography challenges the dominant discourse surrounding Pentecostal Christianity which asserts that conversion is inevitably divisive, splitting families and communities and even individuals in harmful ways that justify its tight legal regulation. To the contrary, Roberts’ fieldwork reveals how the deeply pragmatic nature of Dalit religion allows for significant individual variation and dynamism without inordinate contentiousness. To Be Cared For also contributes to scholarship on women and religion in India, sensitively illustrating the tensions and strains within urban Dalit …
The Papal Encyclical Ad Extremas (1893):The Call For An Indigenous Indian Clergy, Its Effects Upon Thecatholic Church In India, And Its Description Of Indian Religions, Andrew Unsworth
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
Ad Extremas, an encyclical epistle issued by Pope Leo XIII, gives a rare insight into the official opinion of the Catholic Church with regard to India’s indigenous religious traditions at the close of the nineteenth century. By means of a historical and textual analysis of the document, this essay offers a critical assessment of its contents facilitating a better appreciation of the ecclesial transition that occurred between the pontificate of Leo XIII and the promulgation of those texts of the Second Vatican Council that made reference to Hinduism.
The Virtues Of Comparative Theology, Daniel J. Soars
The Virtues Of Comparative Theology, Daniel J. Soars
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
In this article, I focus on a small section in the epilogue of Francis X. Clooney’s The Future of Hindu-Christian Studies in which he outlines some of the personal characteristics needed to do comparative theology well. He takes five of these from Catherine Cornille’s The Im-Possibility of Interreligious Dialogue and adds several of his own. By exploring notions like doctrinal humility and rootedness in a particular tradition, we are forced to reflect upon the ‘virtues’ of the discipline in both senses of the word – not only those attributes required to engage in it, but the merits of doing it …
Book Review: In The Bosom Of The Father: The Collected Poems Of Benedictine Mystic, Edward T. Ulrich
Book Review: In The Bosom Of The Father: The Collected Poems Of Benedictine Mystic, Edward T. Ulrich
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
Book Review of In the Bosom of the Father: The Collected Poems of Benedictine Mystic. Translated by Jacob Riyeff. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2018, 226 pages
Book Review: Learning Interreligiously: In The Text, In The World, Michelle Voss Roberts
Book Review: Learning Interreligiously: In The Text, In The World, Michelle Voss Roberts
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
Book Review of Learning Interreligiously: In the Text, In the World. By Francis X. Clooney, SJ. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2018, xiii + 370 pages
Book Review: Keshab: Bengal’S Forgotten Prophet, Edward T. Ulrich
Book Review: Keshab: Bengal’S Forgotten Prophet, Edward T. Ulrich
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
Book Review of Keshab: Bengal’s Forgotten Prophet. By John A. Stevens. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018, 309 pages
Book Review: Imaginations Of Death And The Beyond In India And Europe, Herman Tull
Book Review: Imaginations Of Death And The Beyond In India And Europe, Herman Tull
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
Book Review of Imaginations of Death and the Beyond in India and Europe. Edited by Günter Blamberger and Sudhir Kakar. Singapore: Springer Nature, 2018, ix + 202 pages
Abhiṣiktānanda: A Reception History1, Enrico Beltramini
Abhiṣiktānanda: A Reception History1, Enrico Beltramini
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
In this article, I present an evaluation of the scholarly reception history of Abhiṣiktānanda. I argue for an identifiable threefold division in Abhiṣiktānanda scholarship: the earliest biographies and appraisals focused on his ‘spiritual search;’ a second wave of scholarship stressed Abhiṣiktānanda’s role as a pioneer in the interreligious dialogue; and, most recently, a third ‘turn’ has emerged in which a generation of scholars are concentrating on ‘internal’ Christian doctrinal critiques of Abhiṣiktānanda’s theology. I also suggest that today’s escapable and perplexing Abhiṣiktānanda is not necessarily the same Abhiṣiktānanda who inspired scholars in the past.
Volume 31, Full Contents, Jhcs Staff
Volume 31, Full Contents, Jhcs Staff
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
No abstract provided.
Editor's Introduction, Gopal Gupta
Editor's Introduction, Gopal Gupta
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
No abstract provided.
Thinking The Creator And Creature Together’: How Rāmānuja’S Account Of Scriptural Meaning Encourages Unitive Language In Christian Discourse About God And The World, Martin Ganeri Op
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
The interest shown by Christian theologians in the work of Rāmānuja has tended to focus on his doctrinal account of God and his embodiment cosmology. This paper explores instead Rāmānuja’s account of language in general and then those Vedāntic texts that grammatically identify the world with the ultimate reality, Brahman. It shows how Rāmānuja is able to affirm the primary meaning of these texts, but in such a way as to express the complete contingency of the world on the ultimate reality as well as their distinction. The paper goes on to develop a theological dialogue between Rāmānuja and the …
The God Of Love And The Love Of God: Thinking With Rāmānuja About Grace In Augustinian Christianity, Ankur Barua
The God Of Love And The Love Of God: Thinking With Rāmānuja About Grace In Augustinian Christianity, Ankur Barua
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
‘moments’ of the Lord’s gracious help offered to the devotee and also the active response of the devotee; second, to indicate the contours of an Augustinian Christian resolution of this theological paradox; and third, to offer some reflections on what Christian theologians could learn through an engagement with Rāmānuja’s understanding of the divine presence. As we will see, the doctrine of production of the world and the doctrine of divine favour are mutually interrelated across Vaiṣṇava Hindu and Augustinian universes. For the later Augustine (411–430 CE), the key theological note is the utter incapability of human beings, who have a …
Rāmānuja At 1000: The Heritage And Promise Of The Study Of Rāmānuja In A Christian-Hindu Comparative Theology, Francis X. Clooney S.J.
Rāmānuja At 1000: The Heritage And Promise Of The Study Of Rāmānuja In A Christian-Hindu Comparative Theology, Francis X. Clooney S.J.
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
This brief essay is a response to the essays collected in this issue of the journal, based on the 2017 AAR panel honoring Rāmānuja at his 1000th birth anniversary. The response highlights key features of each essay as giving us insights into the theology of Rāmānuja and his place in the Western study of Hinduism. The response ends with some reflections on the future of Rāmānuja studies, suggesting the agenda before the next generations of scholars.
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.” …
Getting Real With Advaita Vedānta: Receiving Bradley J. Malkovsky’S Gifts Of Grace, Reid B. Locklin
Getting Real With Advaita Vedānta: Receiving Bradley J. Malkovsky’S Gifts Of Grace, Reid B. Locklin
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
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Book Review: The Human Icon: A Comparative Study Of Hindu And Orthodox Christian Beliefs, Rico G. Monge
Book Review: The Human Icon: A Comparative Study Of Hindu And Orthodox Christian Beliefs, Rico G. Monge
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
Book review of The Human Icon: A Comparative Study of Hindu and Orthodox Christian Beliefs. By Christine Mangala Frost. Cambridge, UK: James Clarke & Co, 2017, xv + 368 pages.