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Francis X. Clooney, S.J., is the Parkman Professor of Divinity at Harvard University, and a scholar of Hinduism and Hindu-Christian studies. He wrote for America’s In All Things column between 2007 and 2016. His latest book, The Future of Hindu-Christian Studies, has recently been published by Routledge.
In All Things
Cape Cod MA Pope Francis rsquo magnificent encyclical quot Laudato Si 39 quot has already been widely commented on and receiving careful analysis from many angles It will of course be a topic of conversation material for study and implementation globally in dioceses and parishes as a
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Francis is inviting more than half the human race to share in this prayer together.
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Prominent Jewish and Muslim figures attended recent CUA conference
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Cambridge MA This is an in-between time in the academic calendar Classes have ended but exams are being written and papers finished and the final push on grading is still to come Professors like me are not on summer holiday to be sure but neither are we as busy as we were during the hectic w
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Shrinking congregations presents an opportunity to rethink small Christian communities
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Cambridge MA More than a year ago I published a book entitled His Hiding Place Is Darkness Toward a Hindu-Catholic Theopoetics of Divine Absence Stanford University Press 2013 Various factors - sabbatical availability of respondents Boston 39 s massive snow storms - delayed our discussion
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Cambridge MA As you know by now the Bhagavad Gita is a complex multi-level text that explores the nature of self the world action and God and proposes as its ideal mdash nbsp or one of its ideals mdash detached action playing one rsquo s role in the world without care for personal bene
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Hear the Hindu text in the background as you travel the Lenten season.
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As a comparative theologian, I can affirm that Holy Week is incomparable.
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Detachment is a path of serene action, for the sake of the world, leading directly to God.