Hindu-Catholic Encounters in Goa
Hindu-Catholic Encounters in Goa

Author: Alexander Henn

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2014-05-27

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 0253013003

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The state of Goa on India's southwest coast was once the capital of the Portuguese-Catholic empire in Asia. When Vasco Da Gama arrived in India in 1498, he mistook Hindus for Christians, but Jesuit missionaries soon declared war on the alleged idolatry of the Hindus. Today, Hindus and Catholics assert their own religious identities, but Hindu village gods and Catholic patron saints attract worship from members of both religious communities. Through fresh readings of early Portuguese sources and long-term ethnographic fieldwork, this study traces the history of Hindu-Catholic syncretism in Goa and reveals the complex role of religion at the intersection of colonialism and modernity.

Encountering God
Encountering God

Author: Diana L. Eck

Publisher: Beacon Press

Published: 2014-10-28

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0807073040

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A clarion call for interfaith dialogue in the U.S., this “splendid exposition of non-Christian approaches to God . . . encourages an increased religious literacy that . . . will contribute richness and diversity to our national identity” (Publishers Weekly) In this tenth-anniversary edition of Encountering God, religious scholar Diana Eck shows why dialogue with people of other faiths remains crucial in today’s interdependent world—globally, nationally, and even locally. As the director of the Pluralism Project—which seeks to map the new religious diversity of the United States, from Hinduism and Buddhism to Islam—she reveals how her own encounters with other religions have shaped and enlarged her Christian faith toward a bold new Christian pluralism.

Teaching Interreligious Encounters
Teaching Interreligious Encounters

Author: Marc A. Pugliese

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 0190677562

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Divided into five components of teaching interreligious encounters--Theory, Design, Textual Analysis, Practice, and Formation--this volume guides both new teachers and seasoned scholars in addressing the sometimes challenging questions raised by contact between divergent faiths.

Hindu-Christian Dialogue
Hindu-Christian Dialogue

Author: Mariasusai Dhavamony

Publisher: Rodopi

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 9789042015104

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From the contents: Introduction: The meaning of interreligious dialogue. - Hinduism and Christianity. - Christian approaches to Hinduism: points of contact and difficulties. - The idea of God: a Hindu-Christian dialogue. - The creative word in Saiva Siddhanta and Christianity: Siva-Sakti and logos. - Trinity and Hinduism. - Revelation: Hindu and Christian. - Salvation: Hindu and Christian. - Monasticism: Hindu and Christian.

Christians Meeting Hindus
Christians Meeting Hindus

Author: Bob Robinson

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2011-06-16

Total Pages: 411

ISBN-13: 1610975960

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With rare exceptions, serious intentional, reflective and sustained interfaith encounter is a novel and recent enterprise. This book looks in detail at one such encounter--the intentional recent Hindu-Christian dialog in India--and asks why and how the practice of dialog came to replace previous attitudes of confrontation and monologue (especially on the part of Christians). Part I sets the encounter in its global context. Part II offers a comprehensive and critical analysis of the actual encounter. Part III draws on aspects of the Christian tradition as it critically examines the ways in which the dialog has been justified in Christological categories. A final chapter discusses the future of the encounter. Unlike many other works in the area of interfaith studies, this work combines both descriptive detail of the actual encounter and critical theological analysis of the strengths and weakness of the dialog model.

Christian Ashrams, Hindu Caves and Sacred Rivers
Christian Ashrams, Hindu Caves and Sacred Rivers

Author: Mario I. Aguilar

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Published: 2016-07-01

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 1784503479

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In late 20th-century India, Christian-Hindu dialogue was forever transformed following the opening of Shantivanam, the first Christian ashram in the country. Mario I. Aguilar brings together the histories of the five pioneers of Christian-Hindu dialogue and their involvement with the ashram, to explore what they learnt and taught about communion between the two religions, and the wide ranging consequences of their work. The author expertly threads together the lives and friendships between these men, while uncovering the Hindu texts they used and were influenced by, and considers how far some of them became, in their personal practice, Hindu. Ultimately, this book demonstrates the impact of this history on contemporary dialogue between Christians and Hindus, and how both faiths can continue to learn and grow together.