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