Hindu–Christian Dual Belonging
ISBN: 9781003142591
Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge
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This book focuses on dual belonging within Hindu-Christian contexts. Written by experts in a variety of fields, the chapters explore the theological, philosophical, and cultural anthropological debates relating to religious pluralism, religious language, and social identity while addressing the fact that both Hindu and Christian forms of self-understandings have been significantly moulded through their interactions in South Asia and across certain Euro-American horizons. The limits of the definition of dual belonging are tested via case studies, and contributors address the question of whether there is anything distinctive about dual belonging across Christianity and Hinduism specifically.

A timely contribution to the emerging subject of dual religious belonging, this book will be of interest to academics in the fields of Hindu studies and Christian theology, Hindu-Christian comparative theology, religious pluralism, interreligious relations, the sociology and anthropology of religion, and comparative theology and philosophy.


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.

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