Hindu-Christian Studies Book Award

Nominations Closed

Nominations are no longer being accepted for the society's award, Best Book in Hindu-Christian Studies—Theology and Philosophy (2008-2011).

At our annual meeting in November 2011, the Book Award Committee will announce a shortlist of books under consideration for this award. In February 2012, the committee will announce the winner, and the award will be presented at our 2012 annual meeting. To celebrate this work, the society will also sponsor a panel discussion of the book to which the author will be invited to respond.

Immediately following the 2012 meeting, the society will begin taking nominations for the Best Book in Hindu-Christian Studies—History and Ethnography (2009-2013). To be eligible, books will have to be published between July 1st, 2008 and July 1st, 2013.

Past Winners

Winners of the Best Book in Hindu-Christian Studies award in past years include those listed below.  The society extends its ongoing appreciation to the authors for their extraordinary contribution to scholarship in this field.

1991-1993, Diana L. Eck, Encountering God: A Spiritual Journey From Bozeman to Banaras (Beacon Press, 1993)
1994-1996, Francis X. Clooney, Seeing Through Texts: Doing Theology among the Srivaisnavas of South India (SUNY, 1996)
1997-1999, Julius J. Lipner, Brahmabandhab Upadhyay: The Life and Thought of a Revolutionary (Oxford, 1999)
2000-2002, Corinne Dempsey, Kerala Christian Sainthood: Collisions of Culture and Worldview in South India (Oxford, 2000).
2003-2005, Eliza F. Kent, Converting Women: Gender and Conversion to Christianity in Colonial South India  (Oxford, 2004).
2006-2008, Chad Bauman, Christian Identity and Dalit Religion in Hindu India, 1968-1947 (Eerdmans, 2008).