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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
Sections
Theology and Religious Studies
Website
http://hds.harvard.edu/people/francis-x-clooney

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

By the Power of Her Word: Absence, Memory, and Speech in the Song of Songs and a Hindu Mystical Text Exchange

Francis Clooney - Published in 2012: vol 41, 213-244, by Brill

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The languages, religions and history of pre-Islamic Iran and Central Asia with special attention to Zoroastrianism; Ancient and Middle Iranian philology and linguistics

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Professor Susanna Elm FBA

Social, economic, and cultural history of the late antique Mediterranean; the transformation of the Roman empire into a predominantly Christian one; slavery, “Augustine the Economist,” imperial representation, war and resilience

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Professor Sacha Stern FBA

Ancient and early medieval Jewish history; rabbinic literature; ancient and medieval time reckoning and calendars.

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