Our 2023 Annual Meeting Program

San Antonio, Texas, November 18-21


Friday, November 17
7:00 — 9:00 p.m.
Marriott Rivercenter, Conference Room 17
AAR Program: P17-500

Theme: The Routledge Handbook of Hindu-Christian Relations, edited by Chad M. Bauman and Michelle Voss

Vasudha Narayanan, University of Florida, Presiding

Panelists:

Laurie Patton, Middlebury College
Brian Pennington, Elon University
Gopal Gupta, Aurora University
Joseph Evans, Villanova University
Kalpesh Bhatt, University of Mary Washington

Respondent:

Chad M. Bauman, Butler University
Michelle Voss, University of Toronto


Saturday, November 18
7:30 — 8:30 a.m.
Marriott Riverwalk, Bowie
AAR Program: P18-100

SHCS Board Meeting

Stephanie Corigliano, Humboldt State University, Presiding


Sunday, November 19
9:00 — 11:30 a.m.
Marriott Rivercenter, Conference Room 8
AAR Program: P19-100

Theme: Christianity through Hindu Categories: Christianity as Dharma, Mārga, Samprādya, Panth, Darśana

Kerry P. C. San Chirico, Villanova University, Presiding

Evgeniia Muzychencko, Emory University
Indian Catholic Church in Postcolonial India: Brahminization of Clerical Authority or Catholicization of Brahminical Authority?

Jonathan Paul Sydnor, Emmanuel College
Are Religions Wise? Jñāna Mārga, Gnosticism, and the Christian Wisdom Tradition

James Elisha Taneti, Union Presbyterian Seminary
Kalagari Subba Rao’s Christian Sampradāya

Sriram Subramanian, Hindu University of America
Iśa Darśana: Christianity as a Nāstika Darśana

Respondent:

Francis X. Clooney, Harvard University

Business Meeting

Stephanie Corigliano, Humboldt State University, Presiding


Sunday, November 19
3:00 — 4:30 p.m.
San Antonio Convention Center, Room 214D (Meeting Room Level)
AAR Program: A19-347

Co-sponsored with the Yoga in Theory and Practice Unit of the AAR

Theme: What is a “Christian Yoga”?

Tracy Tiemeier, Loyola Marymount University, Presiding

Jonathan Dickstein, Arihanta Institute
What Yoga Would Jesus Do? The Relevance of Classical Yoga’s Theism for the Alternatively Religious

Allyson Huval, Georgetown University
How American Christians Practice Yoga

Charissa Jaeger-Sanders, Graduate Theological Union
Service Is the Rent We Pay for Being: La Labor de Nuestras Manos as a Means for Yoga, for Union with the Divine as Seen in Both Jesus and Swami Vivekananda

Leah Mernaugh, University of Victoria
Disentangling Yoga: A Christian take on a “Universal” Practice

Respondent:

Krishna Ghosh, Institute for Vaishnava Studies