Professor Francis Clooney

Classical Hindu scriptural interpretation, particularly ritual Mimamsa and theological Vedanta traditions, and Srivaisnava devotional tradition; comparative theology, grounded in Hindu-Christian studies; Catholic missionary traditions in India

Elected 2010

Year elected: 2010
Subjects: Religion
Website: http://hds.harvard.edu/people/francis-x-clooney

Current post

Parkman Professor of Divinity and Comparative Theology, Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University

Past appointments

Harvard University Parkman Professor of Divinity and Comparative Theology, Harvard Divinity School

Jan 2017 -

Publications

His Hiding Place Is Darkness: A Hindu-Catholic Theopoetics of Divine Absence Stanford University Press, 2013

Carefully Uncertain: The Limits of Clarity at Interreligious Borders Common Knowledge 2012, vol 18.2, pp 312-324

By the Power of Her Word: Absence, Memory, and Speech in the Song of Songs and a Hindu Mystical Text Exchange 2012: vol 41, 213-244,

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