Our 2020 Annual Meeting Program

Virtual, December 2-3


Wednesday, December 2
9:00 – 11:30 a.m. EST
Virtual

Theme: Politics and Religions in India: Religious Freedom for all Citizens of India

This panel addressed the issue of religious freedom in a political climate in which a version of Hinduism is being promoted which seems to delegitimize other well-established religions and to increase social conflict. How should religion scholars understand and respond to this situation?

Panelists:

Edward Ulrich, University of Saint Thomas
The Emergence of the Rhetoric of Hindu-Muslim Strife in India’s Independence Movement

Jose Abraham
Victimization and Ghettoization: A Girardian Reading of Recent Communal Violence in Delhi

Anant Rambachan, Saint Olaf University
Savarkar and Indian identity

Fuad S. Naeem, University of St. Thomas
Examining the Roots of Religious Conflict in Modern South Asia: British colonialism and Hindu-Muslim polemics

Chad Bauman, Butler University
Constraining the Majority: Religious Freedom, ‘Essential Practices,’ and the Government Administration of Temples in India

Respondent:

Michael T. McLaughlin, Old Dominion University

Society for Hindu-Christian Studies Business Meeting

Kerry San Chirico, Villanova University, Presiding


Thursday, December 3
4:00 – 6:00 p.m. EST
Virtual

Theme: The Significance of Sri Ramakrishna for Hindu-Christian Studies: New Perspectives

Panelists:

Jeffery Long, Elizabethtown College 
Rita Sherma, Graduate Theological Union
Christopher Conway, College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University
Pravrajika Vrajaprana, Vedanta Society of Southern California

Respondent:

Reid Locklin, University of Toronto

 

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