Annual Meetings

The society's annual meetings are held in conjunction with the annual meetings of the American Academy of Religion.  Please consult the AAR web site for details as to location, housing, and the like.

The format of our meetings typically consists of two sessions, Friday evening and Saturday, with a business meeting (open to all members) in the final half hour of the Saturday session.

The society’s 2011 Annual Meeting will be held in San Francisco, California, November 18-21, in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion.

2011 Annual Meeting Program

Friday, November 18
7:00-9:00pm, Hilton Union Square - Yosemite A
AAR Program: MP18-401

Raimundo Panikkar's Christological Contribution

Xavier Gravend-Tirole, University of Lausanne and Montreal, Presiding

Christopher Denny, St. John’s University
Purusha Sukta / Nirvana / Holy Saturday: Alternative Paths to Spiritual Kenosis

Erik Ranstrom, Boston College
I Discovered Myself a Hindu: The Promise and Problem of Raimon Panikkar as a Source of Hindu Self-Understanding

Bob Robinson, Laidlaw College
An Evangelical Protestant Appreciation of Panikkar

J. Jayakiran Sebastian, Lutheran Theological Seminary
Fragmented Selves, Fragments of the New Story: Panikkar and Dalit Christology

Responding:
Catherine Cornille, Boston College, Respondent

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Saturday, November 19
7:30-8:30am, Hilton Union Square - Golden Gate 2
AAR Program: MP19-2

Society for Hindu-Christian Studies Board Meeting

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Monday, November 21
9:00-11:30am, Hilton Union Square - Golden Gate 1
AAR Program: MP21-100

9:00-11:00am, Panel

Yoga and Christianity

Purushottama Bilimoria, Deakin/Melbourne and University of California, Berkeley, Presiding

Andrea R. Jain, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis
Yogaphobia and Yoga Ownership: The Shared Fundamentalism of Christian and Hindu Criticisms of the Global Popularization of Yoga

Mark Singleton, St. John’s College
Christian Influences in the Development of Modern Yoga

T. S. Rukmani, Concordia University
Isvara as Seen by Vijnanabhiksu

Gerald J. Larson, Indiana University
Yoga's Atheistic-Theism: An Interesting Contrast to the Triune God of Christianity

Harold Coward, University of Victoria
Christian Mysticism and Patanjali's Yoga Sutras I:41-51

Graham M. Schweig, Christopher Newport University, Respondent

11:00-11:30, Business Meeting

Michael McLaughlin, St. Leo University, Presiding

 

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Past Annual Meetings

 

2010 Atlanta, Georgia
2009 Montréal, Quebec
2008 Chicago, Illinois
2007 San Diego, California
2006 Washington, D.C.
2005 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2004 San Antonio, Texas
2003 Atlanta, Georgia
2002 Toronto, Ontario
2001 Denver, Colorado
2000 Nashville, Tennessee
1999 Boston, Massachusetts
1998 Orlando, Florida
1997 San Francisco, California
1996 New Orleans, Louisiana
1995 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1994 Chicago, Illinois