Hindu–Christian Dual Belonging

Daniel Soars teaches in the divinity department at Eton College, UK. He received his PhD degree from the University of Cambridge, UK, for a comparative theological enquiry into the distinctive relation between the world and God in Christianity and Hinduism. Nadya Pohran received her PhD degree from the University of Cambridge, UK. She is a cultural anthropologist currently working as a part-time professor and applied anthropologist, whose research explores existential belonging, interreligious relations, and the interdisciplinary conversations between anthropology and theology.

Foreword 1.Introduction: Both, Between, or Beyond? An Introduction to Hindu-Christian Dual Belonging 2.Negotiating Dual Belonging: A Study of the Sociocultural History of the St. Thomas Christians of India 3.Neither myself nor another – the Interreligious Belonging of Raimon Panikkar 4.The Possibility of Hindu-Christian Dual Belonging: Anthropological Reflections on a Theological Debate 5.Considering the Case of Catholic-Hindu Dual Belonging from a Magisterial and Dogmatic Point of View 6.Where We Start, Who We Are, and What We Seek: The Born vs. the Convert ‘Dual Belonger’ 7.The Comparative Theology of Francis X. Clooney SJ and the Question of Theological Dual Belonging 8.Non-Dual Conversion and Non-Dual Belonging: Trajectories of Religious Transformation in Missionary Advaita Vedānta 9.Hindu, Christian, Hindu-Christian, and Beyond: Exploring the Relations between Identity and Spirituality10.The Struggle of Belonging: Considering Some On-the-Ground Realities of Multiple Religious Orientation 11.Inculturation, Belonging, and Defining ‘Religion’: Some Reflections on Sara Grant and the Christa Prema Seva Ashram 12.Christian Sannyāsa: Dual Belonging or a Bridge Too Far?