Our 2021 Annual Meeting Program
Virtual, November 19-20
Friday, November 19
7:00 – 9:00 p.m. CST
Virtual
Theme: Reading the Hindu and Christian Classics by Francis X. Clooney, the Best Book in Hindu-Christian Studies 2015-19 (Theology/Philosophy)
Presiding: Stephanie Corigliano, Humboldt State University
Panelists:
Mario Aguilar, University of St. Andrews
Laurie Patton, Middlebury College
Srilata Raman, University of Toronto
John J. Thatamanil, Union Theological Seminary
Respondent:
Francis X. Clooney, Harvard University
Saturday, November 20
9:00 – 11:30 a.m. CST
Virtual
Theme: Indigeneity and Colonization in Hindu-Christian Studies
The diverse legacies of Portuguese, Dutch, and British colonial powers in India deeply inform the practice of Hindu-Christian Studies as a scholarly discipline. Less commonly explored are themes of colonization, assimilation, and the subjugation of Indigenous peoples as they manifest in both European Christianity and Sanskritic Hinduism. This panel attempts a comparative inquiry on these themes in the contexts of India and North America. Panelists will focus on particular case studies of Christian and Hindu colonial and neocolonial programs, along with those decolonial spaces of resistance created by and/or with Indigenous peoples.
Reid B. Locklin, St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto, Presiding
Panelists:
Jeanette Rodriguez, Seattle University
When the Clan Mothers Stand: Interreligious Dialogue and Liberation in Colonial North America
RC Jongte, Princeton University
Christian Hindus or Indigenous Christians? An Indigenous Liberationist Response to Neo-Hindutva Assimilationist Agendas in Northeast India
Brandi Denison, University of Northern Florida:
Adult Children of Manifest Destiny: Confronting Christian Colonization in 12 Steps
Bennett Comerford, Harvard University
Questioning Coloniality in Hindu-Christian Studies: An Enquiry in Extremity
Respondent:
Michelle Voss Roberts, Emmanuel College, University of Toronto
Society for Hindu-Christian Studies Business Meeting
10:45 – 11:30 a.m. CST
Kerry San Chirico, Villanova University, Presiding