Voices
Francis X. Clooney, S.J., is the Parkman Professor of Divinity at Harvard University, and a scholar of Hinduism and Hindu-Christian studies. He wrote for America’s In All Things column between 2007 and 2016. His latest book, The Future of Hindu-Christian Studies, has recently been published by Routledge.
In All Things
Cambridge MA Last week I was in Culver City California -- the famed movie town in the midst of Los Angeles I was there to visit the Jesuit Novitiate of the California Province to give a 3-day seminar on interreligious dialogue and related issues to the first year novices of the California and
In All Things
Cambridge MA -- I am still deciding how to blog and it will take a while to figure out what I can write -- that America readers will find interesting But I am sure that I must write of and from what I know and central to this has to be also my teaching and my scholarly writing I will have am
In All Things
Cambridge Ma -- Advent and Christmas perhaps even more than other religious holidays are at first a bit awkward at Harvard even at the Divinity School where I teach While custom and the academic calendar combine to maintain the sense that December is a festive time there is little room for
In All Things
Cambridge MA Allow me to introduce myself I am a Jesuit of the New York Province which I entered in 1968 at the old St Andrew s Novitiate just north of Poughkeepsie For over two decades I taught in the Theology Department at Boston College a very wonderful educational and theological en
Books
The Sri Lakshmi Temple is a popular center for the worship of the goddess Lakshmi known for her graciousness and generosity Tamil-speaking Hindu priests perform the daily and festival rituals while Hindus young and old come from neighboring towns to beg her favor and celebrate her glory To Lakshm
Dominus Iesus, published by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, of which Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is prefect, is an instruction about the identity of Christ, the integral interconnection of Christ, revelation and the church, and consequently (in the sections to which I restrict my comme