Articles

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Hindu-Christian Conflict in India: Globalization, Conversion, and the Coterminal Castes and Tribes, The Journal of Asian Studies (2013)

While Hindu-Muslim violence in India has received a great deal of scholarly attention, Hindu-Christian violence...

 

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Political Competition, Relative Deprivation, and Perceived Threat: A Research Note on Anti-Chrstian Violence in India (with Tamara Leech), Ethnic and Racial Studies (2012)

A preliminary subnational statistical analysis of violence against Christians in contemporary India, this article suggests...

 

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Conversion Careers, Conversions-For, and Conversion in the Study of Religion, Religion & Culture Web Forum (2012)

I am indebted to Professor Locklin for the provocative nature of this paper, and I...

 

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Christianity and Hinduism: An Annotated Bibliography (with Arun Jones, Brian Pennington, Joseph Prabhakar Dayam, and Michelie Voss Roberts), Oxford Bibliographies Online (2012)

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Fuzzy But Not Warm: On the (Continuing) Descriptive and Analytical Inutility of ‘Spirituality' (with Gene Gallagher and Davina Lopez), Religion and Education (2009)

In her response, Nadine Pence helpfully turns the conversation towards actual practices in teaching and...

 

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The Specter of ‘Spirituality’—On the (In)Utility of an Analytical Category, Religion and Education (2009)

I would like to make it clear that nothing in this article should be taken...

 

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Out of India: Immigrant Hindus and South Asian Hinduism in the United States Chad Bauman and Jennifer Saunders, Religion Compass (2009)

The article provides a survey of research on immigrant Hindus and South Asian Hinduism in...

 

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Postcolonial Anxiety and Anti-Conversion Sentiment in the Report of the Christian Missionary Activities Enquiry Committee, International Journal of Hindu Studies (2008)

Conversion to Christianity is one of the most politically charged issues in contemporary India and...

 

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Redeeming Indian ‘Christian’ Womanhood?: Missionaries, Dalits, and Agency in Colonial India, Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion (2008)

This study of dalit Christians in colonial North India suggests that women who converted to...

 

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Singing of Satnam: Blind Simon Patros, Dalit Religious Identity, and Satnami-Christian Music in Chhattisgarh, India, Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies (2006)

This paper explores the Indianization of Christianity in late colonial Chhattisgarh, India, with special reference...

 

Books

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Christian Identity and Dalit Religion in Hindu India, 1868-1947 (2008)

When a form of Christianity from one corner of the world encounters the religion and...

 

Contributions to Books

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Minorities and the Politics of Conversion: With Special Attention to Indian Christianity (with Richard F. Young), Minority Studies (2012)

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Sathya Sai Baba's Semiotic Flexibility: At Home Abroad in Midwestern America, Public Hinduisms (2012)

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Identity, Conversion, and Violence: Dalits, Adivasis, and the 2007-08 Riots in Orissa, Margins of Faith: Dalit and Tribal Christianity in India (2010)

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Miraculous health and medical itineration among Satnamis and Christians in late colonial Chhattisgarh, Miracle as Modern Conundrum in South Asian Religious Traditions (2008)

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The ever-present entanglement of modernity and tradition was revealed rather plainly to me when,...

 

Reviews

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Book Review: "Bringing the Sacred Down to Earth: Adventures in Comparative Religion," Corinne G. Dempsey, Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies (2012)

A book review for Corinne G. Dempsey's "Bringing the Sacred Down to Earth: Adventures in...

 

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Review of "Missionaries and their Medicine", History of Religions (2011)

A review of Missionaries And Their Medicine: A Christian Modernity for Tribal India, by David...

 

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Book Review: "McDonaldisation, Masala McGospel and Om Economics: Televangelism in Contemporary India", Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies (2011)

A review of McDonaldisation, Masala McGospel and Om Economics: Televangelism in Contemporary India by Jonathan...

 

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Indian Christian Historiography from Below, from Above, and in Between., Church History (2011)

The article reviews the books "India and the Indianness of Christianity: Essays on Understanding--Historical, Theological,...

 

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Book Review: "Beyond Boundaries: Hindu-Christian Relationship and Basic Christian Communities", Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies (2010)

A review of Beyond Boundaries: Hindu-Christian Relationship and Basic Christian Communities by A. Maria David.

 

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Review of "Religious Division and Social Conflict", International Journal of Hindu Studies (2009)

A review of Peggy Froerer, Religious Division and Social Conflict: The Emergence of Hindu Nationalism...

 

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Book Review: "An Encounter of Peripheries: Santals, Missionaries, and their Changing Worlds, 1867-1900", Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies (2009)

A review of An Encounter of Peripheries: Santals, Missionaries, and their Changing Worlds, 1867-1900 by...

 

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Review of "Bourgeois Hinduism, or The Faith of the Modern Vedantists: Rare Discourses from Early Colonial Bengal", Journal of Religion (2009)

The article reviews the book "Bourgeois Hinduism, or The Faith of the Modern Vedantists: Rare...

 

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Book Review of "Indian Religions: Renaissance and Renewal", Numen (2008)

The eighteen articles in this volume grew from papers delivered at the 2006 Spalding Symposium...

 

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Review of 'The Crisis of Secularism', Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies (2008)

The essays in this volume address the "crisis of secularism" in India, a crisis which,...

 

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Review of 'Converting Women: Gender and Protestant Christianity in Colonial South India', Journal of Religion (2007)

The article reviews the book "Converting Women: Gender and Protestant Christianity in Colonial South India,"...

 

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Review of 'Divine mother, blessed mother: Hindu goddesses and the Virgin Mary', Journal of the American Academy of Religion (2006)

This article reviews the book "Divine Mother, Blessed Mother," by Francis Clooney, S.J.

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Review of 'In the Shadow of the Mahatma', The Journal of Asian Studies (2003)

This article reviews the book "In the Shadow of the Mahatma," by Susan Billington Harper.

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Review of 'Rapt in the Name: The Ramnamis, Ramnam, and Untouchable Religion in Central India', Koinonia Journal (2003)

This article reviews the book "Rapt in the Name: The Ramnamis, Ramnam, and Untouchable Religion...

 

Presentations

Winning Strategies from IR All-Stars (with Laura Behling, Jennifer Laherty, David Mason, Brad Matthies, James McGrath, Mark Newton, Charles Watkinson, and David Stout), Digital Commons Events (2011)

Your faculty and students have been producing scholarly work for many years. Is it locked...