Our 2011 Annual Meeting Program
San Francisco, California, November 18-21
Friday, November 18
7:00 – 9:00 pm
Hilton Union Square – Yosemite A
AAR Program: P18-401
Theme: Raimundo Panikkar’s Christological Contribution
Xavier Gravend-Tirole, University of Lausanne and Montreal, Presiding
Christopher Denny, St. John’s University
Purusha Sukta / Nirvana / Holy Saturday: Alternative Paths to Spiritual Kenosis
Erik Ranstrom, Boston College
I Discovered Myself a Hindu: The Promise and Problem of Raimon Panikkar as a Source of Hindu Self-Understanding
Bob Robinson, Laidlaw College
An Evangelical Protestant Appreciation of Panikkar
J. Jayakiran Sebastian, Lutheran Theological Seminary
Fragmented Selves, Fragments of the New Story: Panikkar and Dalit Christology
Respondent:
Catherine Cornille, Boston College
Saturday, November 19
7:30 – 8:30 a.m.
Hilton Union Square – Golden Gate 2
AAR Program: P19-2
Society for Hindu-Christian Studies Board Meeting
Michael McLaughlin, St. Leo University, Presiding
Monday, November 21
9:00 – 11:30 a.m.
Hilton Union Square – Golden Gate 1
AAR Program: P21-100
Theme: Yoga and Christianity
Purushottama Bilimoria, Deakin/Melbourne and University of California, Berkeley, Presiding
Andrea R. Jain, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis
Yogaphobia and Yoga Ownership: The Shared Fundamentalism of Christian and Hindu Criticisms of the Global Popularization of Yoga
Mark Singleton, St. John’s College
Christian Influences in the Development of Modern Yoga
T. S. Rukmani, Concordia University
Isvara as Seen by Vijnanabhiksu
Gerald J. Larson, Indiana University
Yoga’s Atheistic-Theism: An Interesting Contrast to the Triune God of Christianity
Harold Coward, University of Victoria
Christian Mysticism and Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras I:41-51
Respondent:
Graham M. Schweig, Christopher Newport University, Respondent
Business Meeting
Michael McLaughlin, St. Leo University, Presiding