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

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Guy G Stroumsa FBA

Early Christianity, Gnosticism, Manichaeism, Judaism and the history of religions in late antiquity. Historiography of religion and the emergence and development of the comparative study of religion in modern times

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Professor Hugh McLeod FBA

Social history of Christianity in western Europe and the USA in the 19th and 20th century, including urban and working class history, secularisation and international comparison

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Professor Dr Thomas Kaufmann FBA

History of Christianity in early modern period; theological and cultural history of the Reformation; history of the relations between Christian denominations, Judaism and Islam; history of church history

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