Professor Francis Clooney FBA

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
Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2010
Subjects
Religion

Current post

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

Publications

His Hiding Place Is Darkness: A Hindu-Catholic Theopoetics of Divine Absence

Francis Clooney - Published in 2013 by Stanford University Press,

Carefully Uncertain: The Limits of Clarity at Interreligious Borders Common Knowledge

Francis Clooney - Published in 2012, vol 18.2, pp 312-324 by Duke University Press

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Professor John Barclay FBA

Early Judaism and the formation of early Christian thought and practice in the first century; the theology of Paul and the history of its reception

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Professor Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad FBA

Indian philosophy focusing on Sanskrit and Pali, comparative philosophy of epistemology, metaphysics and phenomenology; classical Indian religions, especially Hindu theology in Sanskrit and Tamil, and comparative Hindu-Christian studies

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Professor Douglas Davies FBA

The anthropology and sociology of ritual, symbolism, belief, and emotions. Mormonism; mortality, and funerary practices of burial and cremation. The theology of death. The relationship between anthropology and theology

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