Our 2006 Annual Meeting Program
Washington, D.C., November 17-18
Friday, November 17
7:30 – 10 p.m.
AAR Program: AM17-122
Theme: Eliza F. Kent’s Converting Women: Gender and Protestant Christianity in Colonial South India (Oxford 2004), the Best Book in Hindu-Christian Studies, 2003-2005
Deepak Sarma, Case Western University, Presiding
Panelists:
Francis X. Clooney, Harvard University
Suchita (Rita) Adluri, University of Pennsylvania
Rachel Fell McDermott, Barnard College
Respondent:
Leslie Orr, Concordia University
Saturday, November 18
9:00 – 11:30 a.m.
AAR Program: AM18-5
Theme Hindus, Christians, and the Other
This year the audience is invited to serve as the “respondent” to the panelists’ very brief discussion of their research into religious boundaries in India. Papers will be available in advance on the HCac list-serv.
Corinne Dempsey, University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point, Moderator
Selva J. Raj, Albion College
Being Catholic the Tamil Way: Assimilation and Differentiation
Richard Fox Young, Princeton Theological Seminary
Can a Christian Be a Bhakta? A Sanskritic Hindu View from Central India, c. 1860
Chad Bauman, Butler University
Beyond Conversion: The Politics of Alterity and the Discourse of Difference
George Pati, Valparaiso University
Ethnographic Imagination: Religious Interaction
Tim Dobe, Grinnell College
Becoming Martin Luther in Punjab: Dayanand Sarasvati and the Rhetoric of Reform
Business Meeting
Deepak Sarma, Case Western Reserve University, Presiding