Our 2000 Annual Meeting Program

Nashville, Tennessee, November 17-18

Friday, November 17
7:30 – 10:00 p.m.

Theme: Political Presuppositions and Implications of Hindu-Christian Scholarship

Tinu Ruparell, Liverpool Hope University College, Presiding

Panelists:

Gerald James Larson, Indiana University Bloomington

Vasudha Narayanan, University of Florida

Richard King, University of Stirling

Arindam Chakrabarti, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Respondent:

Corinne Dempsey, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point

Saturday, November 18
9:00 – 11:30 a.m.

Book Award Ceremony

Lance Nelson, University of San Diego, Presiding

The Society’s award for Best Book in Hindu-Christian Studies, 1997-1999, will be presented to Julius J. Lipner for his book Brahmabandhab Upadhyay: The Life and Thought of a Revolutionary. A panel discussion of this book was a featured part of our 1999 Annual Meeting.

Theme: Light and Darkness: Idolatry as a Category in the Hindu-Christian Encounter

Harold Coward, University of Victoria, Presiding

Panelists:

Edwin Bryant, Harvard University

Diana Eck, Harvard University

Philip Roberts, North American Mission Board, Southern Baptist Convention

Daniel Sheridan, St Joseph’s College of Maine

Respondent:

Francis X. Clooney, Boston College

Business Meeting

Lance Nelson, University of San Diego, Presiding