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Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies Volume 32 Discussion of Nathaniel Roberts, To Be Cared For: The Power of Conversion and Article 21 Foreignness of Belonging to An Indian Slum. 2019 Volume 32, Full Contents JHCS Staff Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/jhcs Recommended Citation Staff, JHCS (2019) "Volume 32, Full Contents," Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies: Vol. 32, Article 21. Available at: https://doi.org/10.7825/2164-6279.1747 The Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies is a publication of the Society for Hindu-Christian Studies. The digital version is made available by Digital Commons @ Butler University. For questions about the Journal or the Society, please contact [email protected]. For more information about Digital Commons @ Butler University, please contact [email protected]. Staff: Volume 32, Full Contents JOURNAL OF HINDU-CHRISTIAN STUDIES VOLUME 32, 2019 Theme Articles: Discussion of Nathaniel Roberts, To Be Cared For: The Power of Conversion and Foreignness of Belonging to An Indian Slum. GOPAL GUPTA, Editor’s Introduction ........................................................................................................... 1 ELIZA F. KENT, Review of Nathaniel Roberts’ To Be Cared For: The Power of Conversion and the Foreignness of Belonging in an Indian Slum .................................. 3 SARBESWAR SAHOO, Caste, Conversion, and Care: Toward an Anthropology of Christianity in India ...................................................................................... 9 NATHANIEL ROBERTS, Response to Sarbeshwar Sahoo and Eliza Kent ............................................... 20 Other Articles: NADYA POHRAN, Christ-Centered Bhakti: A Literary and Ethnographic Study of Worship .................................................................................... 27 ANDREW UNSWORTH, The Papal Encyclical Ad Extremas (1893): The Call for an Indigenous Indian Clergy, Its Effects Upon the Catholic Church in India, and Its Description of Indian Religions ................................................... 47 RONALD V. HUGGINS, On Śrīla Prabhupāda’s Insistence that “‘Christ’ came from ‘Krishna.’” ................................................................................................................ 56 DANIEL J. SOARS, The Virtues of Comparative Theology .................................................................... 71 2019 Annual Meeting Sessions ............................................................................................................................... 80 Published by Digital Commons @ Butler University, 2019 1 Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies, Vol. 32 [2019], Art. 21 EDITOR: INTERNET EDITION EDITOR: Gopal K. Gupta Chad Bauman University of Evansville Bulter University Department of Philosophy and Religion 4600 Sunset Avenue 1800 Lincoln Ave. Indianapolis, IN 46208 Evansville, IN 47722 email: [email protected] email: [email protected] Phone: 812-488-2588 Book Review Editor: Katherine C. Zubko, University of North Carolina at Asheville Production Assistant: Cheryl A. Reed, University of Notre Dame EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD John Carman Harvard Divinity School Klaus Klostermaier Francis X. Clooney, S.J. University of Manitoba Harvard Divinity School Julius Lipner Harold Coward University of Cambridge University of Victoria Rachel McDermott J. T. K. Daniel Barnard College Serampore College Anantanand Rambachan Corinne Dempsey St. Olaf College Nazareth College Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad Gavin Flood Lancaster University Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies Richard Fox Young Eliza Kent Princeton Theological Seminary Skidmore College EDITORIAL POLICY The Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies is an annual scholarly journal published jointly at the University of Notre Dame and at the Institute of Philosophy and Culture, Madras, India. It is the official publication of the Society for Hindu-Christian Studies. The aim of the Journal is to create a worldwide forum for the presentation of Hindu-Christian scholarly studies, book reviews, and news of past and upcoming events. Materials selected for publication will be balanced between historical research and contemporary practice and, where possible, will employ analytical and theoretical analysis set within the context of our shared contemporary experience. Contributions are invited and may be addressed to the Editor. Articles of roughly 4000 words are preferred, though occasionally longer pieces will be published. Send manuscript in paper form as well as on diskette. A style sheet is available on request. The Journal adopts a policy of non-gender-specific language where applicable. All articles are subject to review before acceptance and may be edited in the course of publication. SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION An annual subscription is included with membership in the Society for Hindu-Christian Studies. For membership rates see https://shop.nd.edu/C21688_ustores/web/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCTID=2964&SINGLESTORE=true. Subscriptions to the journal (digital only/digital + print) are $25/$35 for non-Indian institutions; free/$20 for Indian institutions; $10/20 for individuals outside of India; and free/$15 for individuals in India. Single copies of back issues are $15. No other currencies can be accepted. To subscribe or become a member, visit www.hcstudies.org. The Journal is indexed in the ATLA Religion Database, published by the American Theological Library Association. JOURNAL OF HINDU-CHRISTIAN STUDIES 2019 Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies ISSN 0844-4587 https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/jhcs/vol32/iss1/21 DOI: 10.7825/2164-6279.1747 2 Staff: Volume 32, Full Contents Editor’s Introduction THIS issue marks a transition for the Journal of the dominant discourse surrounding Hindu-Christian Studies. After many years of Pentecostal Christianity which asserts that service, Katherine C. Zubko will be retiring conversion is inevitably divisive, splitting from being the Journal’s book review editor. families and communities and even Her untiring service, professional expertise individuals in harmful ways that justify its and caring hand will be sorely missed by the tight legal regulation. To the contrary, Journal’s editorial board, the Society for Roberts’ fieldwork reveals how the deeply Hindu-Christian Studies and the readers of pragmatic nature of Dalit religion allows for this Journal. We are very grateful for significant individual variation and dynamism Katherine’s steady and invaluable without inordinate contentiousness. contribution to this Journal. The second paper, by Sarbeswar Sahoo, The JHCS welcomes its new book review examines Roberts’ contribution to the editor, Daniel J. Soars. Daniel completed his anthropology of Christianity in India. Roberts’ PhD in Comparative Theology at the book has four aspects: first, it provides a University of Cambridge in 2019. His thesis, nuanced contextual understanding of the entitled “Beyond the Dualism of Creature and pluralities of Indian Christianities; second, it Creator,” is a Hindu-Christian comparative questions the hierarchy of the religious world enquiry into the distinctive relation between and how materiality or worldly benefits the world and God, with a particular focus on occupy a central role in the life-world of the work of Sara Grant and the earlier Calcutta believers; third, it discusses pastoral School and their attempts to bring Thomism innovation and shows how Pentecostal into conversation with Advaita Vedānta. Soars pastors innovate new ways of interpreting teaches at the Divinity Department at Eton doctrines to address the everyday social College. problems of believers, and also how pastoral Three articles presented in this volume innovation needs to be understood in the are expansions of the papers delivered at a context of pastoral competition and rivalry; panel at the annual meeting of the Society for and finally, it discusses a notion of belonging Hindu-Christian Studies in November of 2018. that goes beyond territoriality and religious The main purpose of that panel was to discuss affiliation and shows how relationality, shared the appearance of a new book To Be Cared For: values, and real/imagined connections are The Power of Conversion and Foreignness of essential to belonging. In light of these four Belonging in an Indian Slum (University of aspects, Sahoo argues that by discussing the California Press, 2016) by Nathaniel Roberts. moral problems and cultural contradictions The book has been well received in scholarly that surround the everyday life and world of circles and it was the cause of a lively low caste Dalit Pentecostals in a slum in discussion at our own meeting. Chennai, Roberts provides a rich ethnography In the first paper, Eliza Kent focuses on of caste, Christianity and care in India. Roberts’ argument that the religiosity of In the third paper, Nathaniel Roberts urban Tamil Dalits, or “slum religion,” responds to Sarbeshwar Sahoo, and Eliza Kent. transcends Hindu or Christian He attempts to address some of the questions, affiliation. Roberts’ ethnography challenges challenges and insights they have put forth in Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies 32 (2019):1-2 Published by Digital Commons @ Butler University, 2019 3 Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies, Vol. 32 [2019], Art. 21 2 Gopal Gupta their comments on To Be Cared For. He focuses assessment of its contents and a better on their methodological questions and how he appreciation of the ecclesial transition that justifies his own epistemological stance in occurred
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