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Comparative Theologies in South Asia

See the web-page to register:

http://www.emory.edu/COLLEGE/RELIGION/crsi/index.html

 

Full Participant rate ($175.00 ) includes workshop fee, room

(Thursday 2:30 p.m.

through Sunday 1:00 p.m.), Friday, Saturday and Sunday breakfasts,

Friday and Saturday lunches, all tea/coffee breaks, and Saturday

evening banquet.

 

There will be a light reception on Thursday evening, but dinner

will not be provided. Nor will Friday dinner be provided.

 

The workshop will be held at the Willits-Hallowell Center on the

Mt. Holyoke Campus. Registration will be at the Center.

 

Residence will be in Porter Hall. People will stay in single

rooms (unless they specifically request to share a room; but there

is no reduced rate for sharing a room), with bathrooms on the hall.

The college provides sheets, towels, washcloth, and soap for each

person.

 

Registration must be received by 20 May

2001. Mail form with payment (make out

your check to Conference on Religion in

South India) to:

 

John E. Cort

Department of Religion

Denison University

Granville, OH 43023

 

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CRSI 2001

COMPARATIVE THEOLOGIES IN SOUTH ASIA

PROGRAM

 

Thursday, June 14

 

7:30 - 9:00 p.m.

Roundtable: The Contribution of John Braisted Carman to the

Study of Religion in South Asia

Chair: John Cort

Brian Hatcher

Dennis Hudson

Mary McGee

Joanna Waghorne

 

Friday, June 15

Devotional Religion

Chair: Rachel Fell McDermott

9:00 Timothy Cahill, The Emotions of Devotion in South

Indian Religious Poetry

9:45 Tracy Coleman, On Suffering Desire for Krishna:

Gender and Salvation in the Bhagavata Purana

10:30 break

Issues of Translation

Chair: John E. Cort

11:00 Indira Vishwanathan Peterson, The Bethleham Kuravanji

of Vedanayaka Sastri of Tanjavur: The Cultural Discourses of an

Early Nineteenth Century Tamil Christian Poem

11:45 lunch

1:00 Steven Hopkins, Loving God in Three Languages:

Sanskrit and the Cosmopolitan Vernacular in Fourteenth-century South

India

1:45 Carl Ernst and James Laine, Ramdas in Urdu

Translation: The Message of a Hindu Saint in the Interpretation of a

South Indian Sufi

2:30 Brian A. Hatcher, Translating Hindu Reform:

Reflections on the Problems of Understanding

3:15 break

European Understandings of Indian Religion

Chair: Dennis Hudson

3:45 Charles Borges, S.J., Jesuit Responses to Hinduism

and Islam in South India in the 16th to 18th Centuries

4:30 Thomas B. Coburn, What is a Cultural Encounter?

Frenchmen and Indians/Mystics and Professors in South India

5:30 end

 

Saturday, June 16

Material Culture and South Asian Religion

Chair: Steven Hopkins

9:00 Georgana Foster, Hybrid Iconography in Hyderabad

9:45 John E. Cort, God as King or God as Ascetic? A Jain

Divine Polarity

10:30 break

11:00 Frederique Apffel-Marglin and Dennis Hudson, Who Has

the Potency?

12:00 lunch

(Sri)vaisnava Studies

Chair: Brian Hatcher

1:30 Stephen Jenkins, Two Oceans of Compassion: Parallels

and Reciprocal Appropriations in Srivaisnava and Indian Buddhist

Conceptions of Compassion

2:15 Balaji N. Hebbar, Is Salvific Bliss One and Equal or

Many and Hierarchical? The Ramanujite and the Madhvite Perspectives

3:00 break

3:30 CRSI business discussion

3:45 Yoshitsugu Sawai, The Scriptural Interpretation of

Madhva's Vedanta Theology

4:30 K. R. Sundararajan, Advocates for Ramanuja--P. N.

Srinivasachari and John Carman

5:30 end

7:00 dinner

 

Sunday, June 17

Contested Issues

Chair: Indira Peterson

9:00 Yvette Claire Rosser, Imagining Jambudvipa:

Deconstructing Post-Modern Post-Orientalist Post-Colonial

Occi-centric Meta-Theories and other such Intellectual Hyperbole and

Re-Restoring Agency to the Indian Subject Who is also a Twentieth

Century Scholar

9:45 Rachel Fell McDermott, The Battle over Bali, or "Why

Must We Feed Her Blood?" The Controversial Status of Animal

Sacrifice in Bengali Goddess Religion

10:30 break

11:00 John Stratton Hawley, Religion, Desire, and the

Presence of Krishna's Absence

11:45 concluding comments

12:00 end of workshop